- Randy Brecker
Infobox Musical artist
Name = Randal "Randy" Brecker
Img_capt = Randy Brecker, Munich July 2001
Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth_name = Randal Edward Brecker
Alias = Randy Brecker
Born = birth date and age|1945|11|27
Cheltenham,Pennsylvania
Origin = flagicon|United States
Instrument =Trumpet andFlugelhorn
Genre =Jazz ,Funk ,Fusion , R&B, Rock
Associated_acts =Stanley Turrentine ,Billy Cobham ,Bruce Springsteen ,Lou Reed ,Sandip Burman ,Charles Mingus ,Blood, Sweat & Tears ,Horace Silver ,Frank Zappa ,Parliament-Funkadelic ,Chris Parker ,Jaco Pastorius ,Dire Straits
URL = http://www.randybrecker.com/Randal "Randy" Brecker (b. Cheltenham,
Pennsylvania ,November 27 ,1945 ) is an Americantrumpet er andflugelhorn ist. He is a highly sought after performer in the genres ofjazz , rock, andR&B , and has performed or recorded withStanley Turrentine ,Billy Cobham ,Bruce Springsteen ,Lou Reed ,Sandip Burman ,Charles Mingus ,Blood, Sweat & Tears ,Horace Silver ,Frank Zappa ,Parliament-Funkadelic ,Chris Parker ,Jaco Pastorius ,Dire Straits ,Blue Öyster Cult and many others.In his formative years, Brecker studied trumpet with Bill Adam at Indiana University.
Randy Brecker played on the first
Blood Sweat & Tears album, "Child Is Father to the Man ", but left the band when founderAl Kooper and trumpeter Jerry Weiss left.Lew Soloff replaced him for the second and subsequent albums.He was a charter member of
Larry Coryell 's seminaljazz fusion bandThe Eleventh House in 1973.Randy Brecker is the older brother of the late jazz saxophonist
Michael Brecker (1949-2007). Together they led Dreams and theBrecker Brothers , a popular funk and fusion band which recorded several albums from the 1970s through the 1990s. After the Brecker Brothers disbanded in 1982, Randy recorded and toured as a member ofJaco Pastorius ' Word of Mouth big band. It was soon thereafter that he met and later married Brazilian jazz pianistEliane Elias . Eliane and Randy formed their own band, touring the world several times and recording one album together, "Amanda" on Passport Records.In the summer of 2001, Randy reunited with his brother Michael for a Europe tour with an acoustic version of the Brecker Brothers, also promoting songs from "Hangin´ In The City".
His most recent CD for ESC, "34th N Lex" released in April 2003, features eleven new Randy Brecker compositions and arrangements and the "dream horn section" of
David Sanborn , Michael Brecker,Fred Wesley andRonnie Cuber , along with Randy's regular working band and his current wife, the Italian tenor saxophonistAda Rovatti , whose playing style bears a striking resemblance to Michael Brecker's.He is part of the
GRP All Star Big Band .Discography
* "Child Is Father To The Man" - Blood Sweat & Tears (1968) Columbia
* "Score" (1969) Blue Note
* "In Pursuit Of The 27th Man" - Horace Silver Quintet (1972) Blue Note
* "Get Your Wings " -Aerosmith (1974)
* "The Brecker Brothers" (1975) Arista
* "Back To Back" - The Brecker Brothers (1976) Arista
* "Don't Stop The Music" - The Brecker Brothers(1977) Arista
* "The Atlantic Family Live In Montreaux" (1977)
* "Heavy Metal Bebop" The Brecker Brothers (1978) Arista
* "Invitation" - Jaco Pastorius(1979)
* "Detente" - The Brecker Brothers (1980) Arista
* "Straphangin"' - The Brecker Brothers (1981) Arista
* "Amanda"(1985) Passport
* "In the Idiom" (1986) Denon
* "Live at Sweet Basil" (1988) GNP Crescendo
* "Toe to Toe" (1990) MCA
* "Return Of The Brecker Brothers" - The Brecker Brothers (1992) GRP
* "Out Of The Loop" - The Brecker Brothers (1994)GRP
* "Into the Sun" (1995)Concord Jazz
* "A Prescription For The Blues" - Horace Silver Quintet (1997) Impulse!
* "Katewalk" - Lew Del Gatto (1997) Naxos Jazz
* "Hangin' in the City" (2001) ESC
* "34th N Lex" (2003) ESC
* "Some Skunk Funk" - with Michael Brecker (2005) Telarc
* "Box Of Photographs" (2005) - Johnny Rodgers & The Johnny Rodgers Bandee also
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Brecker Brothers External links
* [http://www.randybrecker.com/ Randy Brecker official site]
* [http://www.myspace.com/randybrecker Randy Brecker at MySpace]
* [http://www.jazzreview.com/articledetails.cfm?ID=2487 Randy Brecker interview] by Mike Brannon
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