Randy Brecker
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Randy Brecker (b. Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, November 27, 1945) is an American trumpeter and flugelhornist. He is a highly sought after performer in the genres of jazz, rock, and R&B, and has performed or recorded with Billy Cobham, Bruce Springsteen, Charles Mingus, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Horace Silver, Frank Zappa, Parliament, Jaco Pastorius and many others.
He was a charter member of Larry Coryell's seminal jazz fusion band The Eleventh House in 1973.
Randy Brecker is the older brother of the jazz saxophonist Michael Brecker (b. 1949). Together they led Dreams and the Brecker 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 of Jaco Pastorius' Word of Mouth big band. It was soon thereafter that he met and later married Brazilian jazz pianist Eliane Elias. Eliane and Randy formed their own band, touring the world several times and recording one album together, Amanda for Passport Records.
In the summer of 2001, Randy reunited with his brother Michael for an Europe tour with an acoustic version of the Brecker Brothers, also promotion songs from "Hangin´ In The City".
His most recent CD for ESC, 34th N Lex released in April of 2003, features eleven new Randy Brecker compositions and arrangements and the "dream horn section" of David Sanborn, Michael Brecker, Fred Wesley and Ronnie Cuber, along with Randy's regular working band and his actual wife, the Italian tenor saxophonist Ada Rovatti.
[edit] Discography
- Blood Sweat & Tears "Child Is Father To The Man" 1968 Columbia
- Score (1969) Blue Note
- Horace Silver Quintet "In Pursuit Of The 27th Man" (1972) Blue Note
- The Brecker Brothers "The Brecker Brothers" (1975)Arista
- The Brecker Brothers "Back To Back" (1976) Arista
- The Brecker Brothers "Don't Stop The Music" (1977)Arista
- The Brecker Brothers "Heavy Metal Bebop" (1978) Arista
- The Brecker Brothers "Detente" (1980) Arista
- The Brecker Brothers "Straphangin" (1981) Arista
- Amanda(1985) Passport
- In the Idiom (1986) Denon
- Live at Sweet Basil (1988) GNP Crescendo
- Toe to Toe (1990) MCA
- The Brecker Brothers "Return Of The Brecker Brothers" (1992)GRP
- The Brecker Brothers "Out Of The Loop" (1994)GRP
- Into the Sun (1995)Concord Jazz
- Horace Silver Quintet "A Prescription For The Blues" (1997) Impulse!
- Hanging in the City (2001) ESC
- 34th N Lex (2003) ESC
- Some Skunk Funk (2005) Telarc - with Michael Brecker
