Today would have been Michael Brecker‘s 63rd birthday. A tenor saxophonist whose résumé includes stints with Frank Zappa, Sly and the Family Stone, and Miles Davis, Brecker was, according to his bio at allaboutjazz.com, “among the generation of jazz musicians that saw rock music not as the enemy but as a viable musical option.”
Here he is on his final album—released shortly after his death from leukemia in 2007—joined by Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, John Patitucci, and Jack DeJohnette:
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