There, drugs and a love triangle led to a suicide which brought Chicago police to the manager's apartment, where all of the band besides Sandke and Brecker (both of whom were not at the scene) were arrested. Following that semester the band accepted a management offer and moved to Chicago. The band also performed outdoors on campus in a benefit for presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy. The group were finalists in the competition at the Spring 1968 Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival but were disqualified for their interpretation of the Jimi Hendrix song Light My Fire.

Seamon's Sound Band, named after a dormitory official who disliked longhaired students. There he formed a jazz rock group with trumpet player Randy Sandke and others called Mrs.

In the Fall he followed his older brother Randy to Indiana University. He graduated from Cheltenham High School in 1967 and spent that summer at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Brecker began studying clarinet at age 6, then moved to alto saxophone in eighth grade, settling on the tenor saxophone as his primary instrument in his sophomore year. He grew up as part of the generation of jazz musicians who saw rock music not as the enemy but as a viable musical option. Michael Brecker was exposed to jazz at an early age by his father. Born and raised in a Jewish family, his father Bob (Bobby) was a lawyer who played jazz piano and his mother Sylvia was a portrait artist. Michael Brecker was born in Philadelphia and raised in Cheltenham Township, a local suburb.

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