What Do You Know About… Mark Brzezicki By following his instincts and bucking trends, he’s built a career that’s a virtual case study of how to brave the fickle winds of the music industry. Story by Nick Lauro Photo by Andy Labrow At a rest area off a busy highway in Slough, Berkshire, England, in the late 1970s, a windowless Ford Transit van sits in a parking space usually reserved for trucks. Inside, oblivious to the stream of passing motorists, a tall, lithe young man sits at a drumset, working on licks lifted from vinyl records featuring Phil Collins, Steve Gadd, and Harvey Mason. The commuters whizzing past don’t know it yet, but in just a few years their car radio speakers will be shaken by the same rhythms emanating from the stationary vehicle.  The early ’80s would be fertile times for session musicians, on both sides of the Atlantic. […]

September 2013 Issue