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The latest album from jazz musician Randy Brecker is dedicated to his brother, Mike Brecker, who died in 2007. Randy Brecker talks about how the desperate search to help his brother led him to explore his family history, and to create a very personal album. The World’s Alex Gallafent has the story.

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