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The brecker brothers discography project list of albumssingles by catalogue number. Transcriptions straphangin brecker solo transcription. Falling somewhere in the large grey area between those two poles, the brecker brothers started the decade with straphangin, a sevensong excursion into all sorts of fusion and aorlike territories. T he brecker brothers band reunion convened an allstar cast including saxophonist david sanborn and drummer dave weckl for the recent comeback album celebrating the repertoire that had.
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