# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-brecker
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:02:55.399Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-brecker"
name: "Michael Brecker"
slug: "michael-brecker"
description: "Michael Leonard Brecker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Over a four‑decade career, he recorded widely in jazz and popular music and appeared on more than 900 albums as a leader and sideman. He received 15 Grammy Awards from the Recording Academy, was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 2007, and received an honorary doctor of music degree from Berklee College of Music in 2004. He died in New York City in 2007 from complications of leukemia following a 2005 diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndrome."
tagline: "American jazz saxophonist and composer (1949-2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Brecker_Munich_2001.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1949-03-29"
deathDate: "2007-01-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.michaelbrecker.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump