Michael Brecker, a versatile and highly influential tenor saxophonist who won 11 Grammys over a career that spanned more than three decades, has died. He was 57. By Empty, The Associated Press Michael ...

Michael Brecker, the jazz saxophonist who won 11 Grammy Awards and was considered the most influential tenor player of his generation, died Saturday at a hospital in New York. He was 57. The cause of ...

As the new year began, Michael Brecker's life was coming to an end. But the tenor saxophonist, suffering from acute leukemia, was still thinking about his music. He went downstairs to his home studio ...

Tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker died Saturday at the age of 57. The artist was one of the jazz world's most prolific studio musicians. He toured or performed with Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, and ...

Michael Brecker, 57, a bold-toned, versatile tenor saxophonist who won 11 Grammy Awards and whose work as a studio and backup musician and leader appears on thousands of recordings, died Jan. 13 at a ...

The most treacherous position in jazz was being the guy who has to take a solo right after Mike Brecker. If you're a jazz fan, you probably know already who Michael Brecker was, what he represented, ...

Michael Brecker, the jazz saxophonist who won 11 Grammy Awards and was considered by many the most influential tenor player of his generation, died Saturday at a hospital in New York City. He was 57.

The first time I played with Dewey Redman, Jack DeJohnette and Charlie Haden [on Pat Metheny's 80/81] something just clicked, something changed, something shifted, I was never the same after that.

He lived in Hastings-on-Hudson, a town in upstate New York, with his wife, Susan, and their two children, Jessica, 17, and Sam, 13. He is also survived by his older siblings, brother Randy and sister ...

Michael Brecker, the jazz saxophonist who won 11 Grammy Awards and was considered the most influential tenor player of his generation, died Saturday at a hospital in New York. He was 57. The cause of ...