Category michael brecker

Remembering Jim Beard

I first came across Jim Beard’s music on the Michael Brecker recording Now You See It… . He was playing keyboards on this contemporary jazz recording, making modern sounds and jazzing things up. His compositions on that album, “Ode to…

John Hilderbrand
January 7, 2025

top selling contemporary jazz in June 1988: Bobby McFerrin, Kirk Whalum, Basia, Rippingtons, David Benoit, George Howard, John Patitucci, Tuck and Patti and more

Top Contemporary Jazz Albums – June 25, 1988

Bobby McFerrin had the top recording on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums chart 35 years ago. Simple Pleasures was spending its second week as the #1 album the week of June 25, 1988. Simple Pleasures was a bestseller thanks to…

John Hilderbrand
June 19, 2023

Jazz legend Michael Brecker playing the tenor saxophone

Remembering Michael Brecker

I took some time today to reflect on Michael Brecker, who died this day in 2007.

John Hilderbrand
January 13, 2022