Annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival: Greg Hopkins Jazz Orchestra with guest soloist Randy Brecker on trumpet

Six-time Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Randy Brecker has helped shape the sound of jazz, R&B and rock for more than four decades. Starting with Blood, Sweat and Tears, his trumpet and flugelhorn performances have graced hundreds of albums by a wide range of artists from James Taylor and Bruce Springsteen to Frank Sinatra; Steely Dan; Jaco Pastorius and Frank Zappa. Performer, composer, arranger and band director, Greg Hopkins, has been teaching at the Berklee College of Music since 1974, the year The Times in London called him "a real find" for the Buddy Rich Orchestra. His busy teaching and performing schedule takes him all over the world doing concerts, festivals, jazz club dates, and clinics.

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