Mentions of Michael Brecker

The tours on that were really some fantastic playing from everybody, but just hearing the styles of Dewey and Michael, and (they) both admired each other.

On the contrasting tenor styles of Michael Brecker and Dewey Redman during the tours for Pat Metheny's 1980 album 80/81.

said by Jack DeJohnette

We also played together on Herbie's New Standards, that was a great recording which featured Michael Brecker, John Scofield, Dave Holland, myself and Don Alias.

Listing his work with percussionist Don Alias, including Herbie Hancock's The New Standard (1995).

said by Jack DeJohnetteabout Don Aliasabout Herbie Hancockabout John Scofieldabout Dave Holland

I was driving by a major intersection in my town. On the radio was the James Taylor single 'Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight' with this tenor player on it.

Metheny recalls the moment he first heard Brecker's tenor, on James Taylor's record.

said by Pat Metheny

He sounds better than ever. I would say that there's a new component in Mike's playing after all of this, a certain kind of seriousness that he's putting into each gesture.

Metheny speaking during the sessions for Brecker's final album Pilgrimage, after his cancer treatment.

said by Pat Metheny

That record is alive, a hundred percent or more alive Michael Brecker.

Hancock on what Brecker left on the posthumously released album Pilgrimage.

said by Herbie Hancock