The following is an excerpt from Chapter 8, “Going Solo, The Pittbull and The EWI" from Bill Milkowski's Ode to a Tenor Titan: The Life and Times and Music of Michael Brecker (Backbeat Books, 2022).

Jazz saxophonist Michael Brecker died Jan. 13 in New York of leukemia after a public battle with with the pre-leukemic disease MDS. He was 57. He was diagnosed in 2005 and in May, he underwent an ...

While the song "Timeline" is structured as a straightforward minor blues, it is nonetheless attention-grabbing and inspiring, for several reasons. First, Michael Brecker, Pat Metheny, Larry Goldings ...

and some trippy acid jazz outfit called the Modern Groove Syndicate. And about every hour, they're queuing up a song by the late, lamented Michael Brecker. Last week I sort of covered his untimely ...

Pilgrimage is the posthumously issued recording from tenor sax player Michael Brecker, who died earlier this year due to leukemia. The album... Michael Brecker's 'Pilgrimage' Pilgrimage is the ...

When acclaimed jazz tenor saxophonist and 11-time Grammy Award-winner Michael Brecker died of leukemia in January, 2007, Nippertown saxmaster Brian Patneaude knew that he had to pay tribute. So he ...

Nick celebrates the career of drummer extraordinaire Jack DeJohnette, who started out in the hard bop era, and went on to play with legends like Michael Brecker, Pat Metheny, and Keith Jarrett.

Last Friday, I did something a little different -- I went to a Jefferson Center show, but just to listen, not to review. Pretty much every time I have walked in that building, I have written a review.