When fusion first emerged in the late 1960s/early '70s with artists like trumpeter Miles Davis, pianist Chick Corea and guitarist John McLaughlin, the emphasis was on guitar and keyboard heavy lineups ...

The 2003 performance documented on Some Skunk Funk may be credited to trumpeter Randy Brecker, but his brother, saxophonist Michael, joins in for a Brecker Brothers reunion with the added oomph of ...

Randy Brecker still has not made up a set list. Days before he takes the stage at Lehigh University's Zoellner Arts Center in Bethlehem, Brecker, talking by phone from a Manhattan hotel, says he isn't ...

Since hitting New York City in the late 1960s he’s been in the thick of the action, playing hard bop with Horace Silver, jazz/rock fusion with Dreams, and jazz/funk with the Brecker Brothers, the ...

This is a music review, not a religious service. But there’s a notion shared by the two, one of life everlasting. A spirituality explained well on opening night at the Xerox Rochester International ...

Not long after trumpeter Randy Brecker joined Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1967 and played on the jazz-rock group’s debut, Child Is Father to the Man, he left to join renowned jazz pianist Horace Silver’s ...

The Brecker Brothers join forces for a set of mostly highpowered originals at a concert in 2003 Their postbop music is generally funky although Freefall is an uptempo cooker and sometimes a bit ...

Randy and Michael Brecker’s first jam session was in the bathroom they shared between their bedrooms. The boys loved the way the bathroom made their sound bounce around the walls. That may, in fact, ...

Sept. 13-18: The Brecker Brothers Band Reunion. This will be a bittersweet affair without the saxophonist Michael Brecker (who died, at age fifty-seven, in 2007), but the trumpeter Randy Brecker will ...