Live from the New Morning Jazz Festival in Aug. 1994, Brecker and his quartet show off their incredible talent for improv.
August 1994: Randy Brecker and his sidekicks Niels Lan Doky, Alvin Queen and Pierre Boussaguet gave a memorable concert at the New Morning Jazz Festival in Geneva. At that time, just about everything had already been said about Randy's trumpeting skills. The elder brother of the late - and much lamented - tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker, Randy was born in Philadelphia in 1945. After receiving a solid musical education, he joined Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1966, then opted for Horace Silver's Quintet as his musical home for the next 3 years. During the heyday of the loft scene in Manhattan, he and his brother formed the mythical Brecker Brothers, one of the locomotives of the so-called "fusion" between Jazz and Rock during the eighties. The many thousands of fans of this irresistibly charming introvert - one of the most active musicians in New York's studio scene - still remember the precise, powerful and soft sound of Randy Brecker's superb improvisations. |
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