Michael Brecker
Tenor Saxophone / Saxophone

Michael Brecker

(1949–2007)

United States

Other saxophonists say his technique simply cannot be copied — yet he never sounds mechanical. He absorbed rock and funk alongside jazz, and pushed the possibilities of the saxophone into territory it had never occupied. A studio giant and bandleader who redefined what the instrument could be.

Michael Brecker's leader album

Michael Brecker
Michael Brecker
Michael Brecker · 1987
80/81
80/81
Pat Metheny · 1980

Michael BreckerMichael BreckerMichael Breckerマイケル・ブレッカー appeared on approximately 900 recordings — not just jazz, but pop and rock sessions where someone needed saxophone done right. He appeared on Pat MethenyPat MethenyPat Methenyパット・メセニー's 80/8180/8180/81Pat Metheny · 1980 (1980) and released his own debut in 1987. He died of leukemia in 2007 at 57, having won 15 Grammy Awards.

— Michael Brecker, Wikipedia, 2024

Michael Brecker's albums

Michael Brecker's leader album

Michael Brecker
Michael Brecker
Michael Brecker · 1987
Spectrum
Spectrum
Billy Cobham · 1973

Billy CobhamBilly CobhamBilly Cobhamビリー・コブハム's 1973 album SpectrumSpectrumSpectrumBilly Cobham · 1973 remains one of the most influential jazz-rock fusion recordings. With Tommy Bolin, Jan Hammer, Leland Sklar, Joe Farrell, and Ron Carter on the roster, Billy CobhamBilly CobhamBilly Cobhamビリー・コブハム's powerful drumming defined the vocabulary of fusion drumming.

— Spectrum (Billy Cobham album), Wikipedia, 2024

Michael Brecker's albums

Michael Brecker's albums

Directions in Music
Directions in Music
Herbie Hancock · 2002

Directions in Music (2001) was Hancock's tribute to Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Placing HargroveRoy HargroveRoy Hargroveロイ・ハーグローブ — from the trumpet lineage — alongside Brecker, who had redefined the post-bop saxophone sound, was deliberate. Intergenerational transmission was the album's real subject.

Michael Brecker's albums

Michael Brecker's albums

80/81
80/81
Pat Metheny · 1980

80/8180/8180/81Pat Metheny · 1980 (1980) brought Pat MethenyPat MethenyPat Methenyパット・メセニー together with Michael BreckerMichael BreckerMichael Breckerマイケル・ブレッカー, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, and Jack DeJohnetteJack DeJohnetteJack DeJohnetteジャック・ディジョネット. The double-album of long-form improvisation showed a darker side beyond the Pat Metheny Group's sunlit image.

— 80/81, Wikipedia, 2024

Michael Brecker's albums