Michael Brecker Death Cause and Date

Michael Brecker's Death

Born (Birthday) March 29, 1949

Death Date January 13, 2007

Age of Death 57 years

Cause of Death Leukemia

Profession Saxophonist

The saxophonist Michael Brecker died at the age of 57. Here is all you want to know, and more!

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Fifteen-time Grammy Award winner and Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame inductee who was given an honorary degree from Berklee College of Music.

His wife was his manager and established bone marrow drives to combat Brecker’s MDS.

Michael Brecker, a saxophonist who won 11 Grammy Awards and was among the most influential musicians in jazz since the 1960s, died yesterday at a hospital in New York City. He was 57 and lived in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. The cause of death was leukemia, said Darryl Pitt, his manager.