Pioneers For A Cure is pleased to announce the iTunes release of the American classic 'Ballad of John Henry' by Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter Randy Brecker. Brecker has selected the National Marrow Donor Program - Be The Match to benefit from proceeds from sales of the single, an advance release for the Pioneers For A Cure 'American Collection' in October 2011.
The song can be found on iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/pioneers-for-a-cure-ballad/id445655596.
"It was an honor to be asked to participate in Pioneers for a Cure. Not only did I lose my brother Michael Brecker to MDS/Leukemia, we also lost both of our parents to similar blood cancers. This is a very important issue, one to which I hope many people will contribute. We're making inroads, but we have a long way to go to fully eradicate Cancer," said Brecker.
Randy Brecker has been shaping the sound of Jazz, R&B and Rock for more than four decades. His trumpet and flugelhorn performances have graced hundreds of albums by a wide range of artists from James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen and Parliament-Funkadelic to Frank Sinatra, Steely Dan, David Sanborn, Jaco Pastorius, Horace Silver and Frank Zappa. In 2007 he was awarded his fourth Grammy for "Randy Brecker Live with the WDR Big Band," (Telarc/BHM) the live recording (also available in DVD format) of his performance at the Leverkusen Jazz Fest in 2004.
As a leader in the field of unrelated marrow and umbilical cord blood transplantation, the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP)
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