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 Posté le: 15 Jan 2007 11:07 Sujet du message: Michael Brecker : un dernier souffle [Saxophoniste] |
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Michael Brecker 1949-2007
Comparé à juste titre à d'illustres aînés comme John Coltrane, le saxophoniste américain Michael Brecker - un musicien influent depuis une trentaine d'années - vient de nous quitter, suite à une longue maladie, selon le Associated Press Writer.
Touche à toutl apparaitraît sur plus de huit cent albums jazz, et c'est aussi un artiste récompensé par plusieurs Grammy Awards, comme avec son album hommage à John Coltrane et Miles Davis, en compagnie de Roy Hargrove (trompette) et Herbie Hancock (piano) : "Directions in music : live at Massey Hall" (2002, Umvd Labels).
A écouter aussi, ses interventions sur l'album "What it is" (1999, Blue Note) de Jacky Terrasson, ou "Cambucha" (1999, American Clave) ou "The Brecker Brothers" (1975, Arista) pour un retour aux sources, en compagnie du frangin trompettiste, Randy Brecker.
Le jazz - la musique - pleure un grand monsieur au son inimitable.
Site de l'artiste | http://michaelbrecker.com
Video sur Youtube
. Brecker Brothers Some Skunk Funk
. Brecker with the Paul Simon Group
| Associated Press Writer a écrit: | -------------------------
Saxophonist Michael Brecker dies at age 57
By NAHAL TOOSI
Associated Press Writer
January 13, 2007, 4:52 PM EST
NEW YORK -- Michael Brecker, a versatile and much-studied jazz
saxophonist who won 11 Grammys over a career that spanned more than
three decades, died Saturday at age 57.
Brecker died in New York of leukemia, according to his longtime friend
and agent, Darryl Pitt.
In recent years, the saxophonist had struggled myelodysplastic syndrome, a cancer in which the bone marrow stops producing enough healthy blood cells. The disease, known as MDS, often progresses to leukemia.
Becker, who had a home in Hastings-on-Hudson, was born in 1949 in
Philadelphia and had won 11 Grammys for his work as a tenor saxophonist.
He was inspired to study the tenor saxophone by the work of jazz legend
John Coltrane, according to his Web site.
He and his brothers led a successful jazz-rock fusion group called the
Brecker Brothers. Throughout his career, he recorded and performed with
numerous jazz and pop music leaders, including Herbie Hancock and Joni
Mitchell, according to the site.
His technique on the saxophone was widely emulated and taught. Jazziz
magazine once called him "inarguably the most influential tenor stylist
of the last 25 years." |
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