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| Special Live Stream of The Brecker Brother’s Band Reunion!  Special Live Stream of The Brecker Brother's Band Reunion! This one-time event is not to be missed. Friday, April 12th - 9:30 PM (ET) Visit www.mcgjazz.org and click on the live stream box to log in. The show will feature: Randy Brecker - Trumpet, Ada Rovatti - Saxophone, Mitch Stein – Guitar,Oli Rockberger – Keyboards, Neil Jason – Bass, Rodney Holmes – Drums. Long regarded as one of jazz's pioneering fusion outfits, The Brecker Brothers boasted two of the best players in the music's history - trumpeter Randy Brecker and saxophonist Michael Brecker. Together they forged a sound that became a template for modern electric jazz, scoring that rare double-headed achievement of commercial and artistic success. After a hiatus of nearly a decade, the Brecker Brothers reunited in 1992 for the GRP album Return of the Brecker Brothers, which earned three GRAMMY nominations.Two decades after this reunion, the Brecker Brothers remains one of the seminal bands in the history of jazz. As Chuck Berg declared in Jazz Times, "[Recordings of the Brecker Brothers'] music still crackle with the magnetic brand of high-energy, high tech virtuoso playing [and] writing that characterizes the work of the Philadelphia-bred duo to this day ... The kind of pivotal role played by Bird in bebop, or Miles in modal improvisation, is similar to that played by the Breckers vis-à-vis jazz-funk." write your comments about the article :: © 2013 Jazz News :: home page |