Randy Brecker Biography

Randy Brecker (b. Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, November 27, 1945) is an American trumpeter and flugelhornist. He is a highly sought after performer in the genres of jazz, rock, and R&B, and has performed or recorded with Billy Cobham, Bruce Springsteen, Charles Mingus, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Horace Silver, Frank Zappa, Parliament, Jaco Pastorius and many others.

He was a charter member of Larry Coryell's seminal jazz fusion band The Eleventh House in 1973.

Randy Brecker is the older brother of the jazz saxophonist Michael Brecker (b. 1949). Together they led Dreams and the Brecker Brothers, a popular funk and fusion band which recorded several albums from the 1970s through the 1990s.