There comes a time, it seems, when every major-label jazzer has to add a ballads album to his or her discography. That time has come for Michael Brecker, who enlists the formidable Pat Metheny as both ...

New York? As the new year began, Michael Brecker’s life was coming to an end. But the tenor saxophonist, suffering from acute leukemia, was still thinking about his music. He went downstairs to his ...

Michael Brecker and James Taylor would seem to be an unlikely combination. But, not so. Nearly 30 years ago, Brecker’s tenor saxophone solo was an unexpected highlight in Taylor’s Top 20 hit “Don’t ...

Michael Brecker, the jazz saxophonist who won 11 Grammy Awards and was considered by many the most influential tenor player of his generation, died Saturday at a hospital in New York City. He was 57.

Michael Brecker, the 54-year-old Philadelphia-born saxophonist, has succeeded in taking the late John Coltrane's revelatory sax legacy to new destinations without leaving jazz (as the world-musical ...

Grammy-winning musician Michael Brecker, a tenor saxophonist who worked with the likes of Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan and Herbie Hancock, has died. His longtime manager Darryl Pitt confirmed ...

It was last January 13 of this year when Michael Brecker died of acute leukemia. Only 57 years old and at the peak of his career, he was generally regarded as the most influential saxophonist since ...

A set of nothing but ballads might become tedious in the wrong hands, but tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker's sterling arrangements and thoughtful lines allow the music to flow with undeniable grace… ...