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