Wide Angles
album by Michael Brecker

Wide Angles is a studio live album led by saxophonist Michael Brecker that won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 2004.
“Wide Angles” enters the record as album by Michael Brecker. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wide, Angles and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Wide Angles” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Wide, Angles and album provides the most credible route into that argument.
Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7998554. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004.
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This entry incorporates text from “Wide Angles” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.