The multiple Grammy award winning jazz trumpet player Randy Brecker played with legends like Clark Terry, Duke Pearson, Thad Jones, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Sinatra and Frank Zappa.
Randy Brecker, tp
Ada Rovatti, saxes
David Kikoski, p
Alex Claffy, b
Steve Johns, dr
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Jazz trumpeter, composer and multiple Grammy winner Randy Brecker has been shaping the sound of Jazz, R & B and Rock for more than three decades. His trumpet and flugelhorn performances have graced hundreds of albums by a wide range of artists from James Taylor, Steve Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Chaka Khan, George Benson and Parliament/Funkadelic to Frank Sinatra, Steely Dan, David Sanborn, Horace Silver, Jaco Pastorius and Frank Zappa. Born in 1945 in Philadelphia to a musical family, Randy's musical talent was nurtured from an early age. He later moved to New York where he landed gigs with such prominent bands as Clark Terry's Big Bad Band, the Duke Pearson Big Band and the Thad Jones Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra. In 1967, Randy ventured into jazz-rock with the band Blood, Sweat and Tears, but left to join the Horace Silver Quintet. He recorded his first solo album, 'Score', in 1968, featuring a young, then unknown 19 year-old tenor saxophonist named Michael Brecker. After Horace Silver, Randy joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers before teaming up with brother Michael, Barry Rogers, Billy Cobham, and John Abercrombie to form the seminal fusion group 'Dreams'. The group recorded two adventurous and wildly acclaimed albums: 'Dreams' and 'Imagine My Surprise' before they disbanded in 1971. In the early 1970s, Randy performed live with many prominent artists including Larry Coryell’s Eleventh House, Stevie Wonder and Billy Cobham. By 1975, Randy and Michael founded the Brecker Brothers Band. A band of immeasurable impact and influence, they released six albums and garnered seven Grammy nominations between 1975 and 1981. Their eponymous first record, which Randy wrote, arranged and produced, featured his now classic composition “Some Skunk Funk.” Randy has played on around 100 albums, has toured and played all over the world, has won five Grammy awards and is one of the most sought after jazz trumpet players of our time. For this week, Randy brings an exclusively put together quintet for this year’s International Jazzfestival Bern.
Concerts
Tue. 02.05. - Sat. 06.05.2023
1st Concert 7:30 p.m.
(Doors 7:00 p.m.)
2nd concert 10:00 p.m.
(Doors 9:30 p.m.)
Venue
Marians Jazzroom
Admission
One Concert CHF 48.-
Both Concerts CHF 72.–