Michael Brecker R.I.P.

[I shot a man in Reno]

I saw him play with Herbie Hancock and Roy Hargrove last year in Chicago. I sat front-row center and it was an amazing show. He played this weird Electronic Wind Instrument (EWI) which was an odd-kind of homemade synthesizer that you blow into and makes groovy-weird sounds. It was likely an early proto-type of this: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/produ...2&src=3SOSWXXA
Anyway, it sounded really cool.

Alas, it is probably my fault that he got sick and died. I have an unfortunate curse associated artists dying shortly after I've seen them as I recently explained in this thread: http://forums.cigarweekly.com/viewtopic.php?t=141864