Goodbye Michael

This is a tribute to Michael Brecker, one of Otrie's heroes, who died earlier this morning.

Michael Brecker, Saxophonist and Jazz Musician Extraordinare, has, during his lifetime, accomplished the following:-

1) won 11 Grammys as a performer and a composer.
2) Popularising jazz at a time when rock was the mainstay of the mainstream tastes.
3) Popularising the EWI and endorsing the Selmer IV Tenor Sax
4) Groundbreaking music (like on this video)



Michael Brecker had been diagnosed with the blood disorder myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Despite a widely-publicized worldwide search, Brecker was unable to find a matching stem cell donor. He was the recipient of an experimental partial matching stem cell transplant and as of late 2006 he was recovering, but it wasn't enough.
He was 57.

Goodbye, Michael. You will be missed.