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Albany, N.Y.: Timesunion.com - Print Story pagina 1 van 1 print story back Music world celebrates the life and sounds of Michael Brecker By DAN DeLUCA, McClatchy First published: Thursday, February 22, 2007 NEW YORK -- The jazz world came together Tuesday night at Town Hall to remember saxophone player Michael Brecker. And it came to play. Brecker, the 13-time Grammy winner who is widely regarded as the most influential sax man of the last 35 years, died from leukemia at age 57 in January. A lineup of luminaries including Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny and Paul Simon went onstage Tuesday to pay tribute to a musician who played on more than 900 albums. This month, Brecker won two posthumous Grammys for a recording with his older brother, Randy, a trumpeter. Tuesday night, Randy Brecker said: "I remember when 'Trane died, thinking, 'What are we going to do?' " speaking of his brother's saxophone hero, John Coltrane. "That feeling is once again upon us." Michael Brecker also recorded as a leader and with his much-lauded early 1980s group Steps Ahead, as well as making pop records with Joni Mitchell, Parliament Funkadelic and Bruce Springsteen. In a video tribute, James Taylor credited Brecker, his sponsor when he was trying to kick a drug habit in the 1970s, with saving his life. BRECKER Hancock was among the many who praised Brecker both as a musician and as a friend. "I had so many opportunities to play with Michael, and I never could believe what was coming out of his horn," he said. Later, he accompanied Simon on a Fender Rhodes on "Still Crazy After All These Years." Simon recalled how Brecker nailed the song's sax solo in two takes. Last August, more than two years after he was diagnosed with the bone-marrow disorder myelodysplastic syndrome, which progressed into leukemia, Brecker recorded a final album, with Hancock and Metheny. It will be released in May. The mournful, elegiac sound of Brecker's sax might have been the most beautiful music heard in the two-hour evening. (It was also the only saxophone heard: Sax player Dave Liebman joked that Brecker's wife, Susan, had instituted a "no saxophones" edict. Liebman played a "two-dollar flute" instead.) Brecker is also survived by his daughter, Jessica, 17, son, Sam, 13, and sister, Emily Brecker Greenberg. Brecker attempted to raise awareness for blood testing to help treat diseases such as leukemia and lymphoma, through a foundation called Time Is of the Essence. For more information, go to www. marrow.org. "Mike saw his condition as something he could use to help others," Hancock said. "If that's not compassion, I don't know what compassion is." All Times Union materials copyright 1996-2007, Capital Newspapers Division of The Hearst Corporation, Albany, N.Y. CONTACT US | SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWSPAPER | HOW TO ADVERTISE | YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS | FULL COPYRIGHT | CLASSROOM ENRICHMENT http://timesunion.com/AspStories/storyprint.asp?StoryID=565390 26-2-2007.

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