Dr. Jazz Talks #94: Samo Šalamon & Randy Brecker interview

New interview from the Dr. Jazz Talks interview series, this time Randy Brecker – incredible trumpet player and composer, with a great last album Double Dealin'… We talk about Randy's beginnings and influences, being a bandleader, his last album Double Dealin', playing with The Brecker Brothers, Horace Silver, Hal Galper, Jaco Pastorius and others, his improvisational and compositional approaches, etc… A selection of the incredible albums that Randy did as a leader: 1969 – Score (with Michael Brecker, Jerry Dodgion, Larry Coryell, Hal Galper, Eddie Gomez, Chuck Rainey, Mickey Roker, Bernard Purdie) 1986 – Amanda (with Sadao Watanabe, Michael Brecker, Barry Finnerty, Jeff Mironov, Eliane Elias, Will Lee, Mark Egan, Dave Weckl, Danny Gottlieb, Chris Parker, Manolo Badrena, Cyro Baptista) 1988 – Live at Sweet Basil (with Bob Berg, Dave Kikoski, Dieter Ilg, Joey Baron) 1993 – In the Idiom (with Joe Henderson, Dave Kikoski, Ron Carter, Al Foster) 1997 – Into the Sun (with Michael Brecker, Jim Beard, Will Lee, Peter Erskine, Marcio Doctor) 2003 – 34th N Lex (with Michael Brecker, David Sanborn, Ronnie Cuber, Ada Rovatti, Fred Wesley, Michael Davis, Adam Rogers, Chris Taylor, Chris Minh Doky, Gary Haase, Clarence Penn, Zach Danziger) 2008 – Randy in Brasil (with Teco Cardoso, Ruria Duprat, Paulo Calazans, Andre Mehmari, Gilson Peranzetta, Ricardo Silveira, Sizao Machado, Rogero, Da Lua, Joao Parahyba, Robertinho Silva, Edu Ribeiro) 2019 – Rocks (with David Sanborn, Ada Rovatti, Wolfgang Haffner, NDR Bigband) Facebook:   / samosalamonmusic   Instagram:   / samosalamon   Bandcamp: https://samosalamon.bandcamp.com/ Website: http://www.samosalamon.com/