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Saturday, June 02, 2007

A Jazzman’s Farewell Album, All Heart and Soul










The saxophonist Michael Brecker preparing for a recording session in Manhattan last August.


It was a frail Michael Brecker who walked slowly into a Manhattan recording studio last August, clutching a cane and a folder of sheet music.

He did not look capable of holding, much less playing, his tenor saxophone during a weeklong recording session scheduled for him. One of jazz’s most influential tenor saxophonists over the last quarter-century and an 11-time Grammy winner, he had been battling myelodysplastic syndrome, a bone marrow disease commonly known as MDS, for more than a year and would pass away about four months later, at 57.

Read the entire article at By Corey Kilgannon at The New York Times

Michael Brecker website

Also of interest, the NPR article "Jazz Great Brecker: A 'Pilgrimage' Before Dying" at JazzHQ

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