Blue Moon

Randy Brecker

An early clip featuring the masterful trumpeter

Click here to Support Jazz on the Tube

Randy Brecker has been on close to an infinite number of sessions during the past half-century, ranging from hard bop to funk, commercial dates with pop acts and showcases with orchestras; he always uplifts each group.

This is one of the earliest film clips of Brecker, probably from the mid-1970s.

Brecker is featured playing flugelhorn (and trumpet at its conclusion) on the old swing standard “Blue Moon,” a song that he never otherwise recorded.

It serves as proof that Brecker (who at that early point sounds a little like Freddie Hubbard) was a very valuable and talented musician from the start.

-Scott Yanow

 

Click here to Support Jazz on the Tube