By Travis Rodgers, The Jazz Owl
If you were listening to Jazz in the 70s and 80s, you heard the Brecker Brothers in all their power, finesse, and glory. I remember well when they disbanded in 1982 and their last album, Straphangin’—their sixth—would occupy a place near and dear to me. They would reunite for a 1992 album, Return of the Brecker Brothers, and for me it was like the sound of the archangel announcing the Second Coming. Read this entire piece here.