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Michael Brecker

Michael Brecker – born in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania on March 29, 1949 - was a jazz saxophonist who began playing music as a child and went to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts and at Indiana University. He moved to New York City and had stints with his trumpet player brother Randy Brecker in a jazz-rock group called Dreams and as the Brecker Brothers. He became a ubiquitous session player covering jazz, funk, rock and R&B and garnered attention for his compositions. Artists who hired him for recordings included Joni Mitchell, John Lennon, Frank Sinatra...