Randy Brecker can pinpoint the exact moment when he realised that his younger brother, Michael, was a massive saxophone talent.

Being three years older, Randy had left home, gone to Indiana University and by the summer of 1968 was living and working in New York, where he'd played trumpet with jazz-rock pioneers Blood Sweat & Tears, pianist Horace Silver's quintet and Duke Pearson's big band, among other notable musicians.

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