Some music is intended to paint a romantic scene - a candlelit dinner, a walk along a moonlit beach. Quiet Nights - Diana Krall's twelfth album - ain't about that. Using Brazil as a musical point of reference,

Influential tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker has died. He was 57. The musician died in a hospital in New York on Saturday from leukemia - according to his manager Darryl Pitt. Brecker had previously struggled with myelodysplastic syndrome, a cancer in which the bone marrow stops producing enough healthy blood cells. The disease, known as MDS, often progresses to leukemia.