![]() ![]() Ģ004 saw Brecker touring Europe as co-leader (with Bill Evans) of the band Soulbop. In the summer of 2003 the Brecker Brothers appeared in Japan at the Mount Fuji Jazz Festival. That summer he went back to Europe with the Bill Evans Soulbop Band. īrecker's next CD for ESC Records, 34th N Lex, won him his third Grammy for Best Contemporary Jazz Album in 2003. This CD was released in Europe, where Brecker toured extensively with his own line-up. ![]() In 2001, Brecker released Hangin' in the City (ESC), a solo project that introduced his alter-ego Randroid with lyrics and vocals by Randroid himself. In 1997, Into the Sun (Concord), a recording featuring Brecker's impressions of Brazil, garnered Brecker his first Grammy as a solo artist. In 1995 he was featured on Turtles, an album by Polish composer Włodek Pawlik. ![]() The follow-up, 1994's Out of the Loop, was a double-Grammy winner. In 1992 Randy and Michael reunited for a world tour and the triple-Grammy nominated GRP recording The Return of the Brecker Brothers. īrecker at the Aarhus International Jazz Festival, Denmark, 2017 In 1977 he founded the jazz club Seventh Avenue South with his brother Michael Brecker. Eliane and Randy formed their own band, touring the world several times and recording one album named after their daughter together, Amanda on Passport Records. It was soon thereafter that he met and later married Brazilian jazz pianist Eliane Elias. Their first record, The Brecker Bros., featured Randy's composition "Some Skunk Funk", and he composed several pieces on this and subsequent albums.Īfter the Brecker Brothers disbanded in 1982, Randy recorded and toured as a member of Jaco Pastorius' Word of Mouth big band. They released six albums on Arista and garnered seven Grammy nominations between 19. He also recorded several albums with his brother under pianist/composer Hal Galper.īy 1975, Randy and Michael formed the Brecker Brothers band. In the early 1970s, Brecker performed live with many artists including The Eleventh House, Stevie Wonder and Billy Cobham. The group recorded two albums: Dreams and Imagine My Surprise for Columbia Records before they disbanded in 1971. Brecker recorded his first solo album, Score, in 1968, featuring his brother Michael Brecker.Īfter Horace Silver, Randy Brecker joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers before teaming up with brother Michael, Barry Rogers, Billy Cobham, and John Abercrombie to form the fusion group Dreams. In 1967, Brecker ventured into jazz-rock with the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, on their first album Child Is Father to the Man, but left to join the Horace Silver Quintet. Brecker attended Cheltenham High School from 1959 to 1963 and then Indiana University from 1963 to 1966 studying with Bill Adam, David Baker and Jerry Coker and later moved to New York and performed with Clark Terry's Big Bad Band, the Duke Pearson and the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. He took Randy and his younger brother Michael Brecker to see Davis, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, and many other jazz icons. My brother ( Michael Brecker) didn't want to play the same instrument as I did, so three years later he chose the clarinet!" Randy's father, Bob, was also a songwriter and singer who loved to listen to recordings of the great jazz trumpet players such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown. I chose trumpet from hearing Diz, Miles, Clifford, and Chet Baker at home. In school when I was eight, they only offered trumpet or clarinet. ![]() Randy described his father as "a semipro jazz pianist and trumpet fanatic. His father Bob (Bobby) was a lawyer who played jazz piano and his mother Sylvia was a portrait artist. Brecker was born on November 27, 1945, in the Philadelphia suburb of Cheltenham to a musical family. ![]()
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