{{Short description|British flautist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Adrian Brett | image = | alt = | caption = | image_size = | birth_date = 1945 | birth_place = Deal, Kent | death_date = | origin = United Kingdom | instrument = Flute | genre = Pop | occupation = Flautist | years_active = 1959-present | label = Warwick Records | associated_acts = | website = | current_members = | past_members = }}
'''Adrian Brett''' is a British flautist.<ref name=Guinness>{{Citation | last1=Rice | first1=Tim | last2=Rice | first2=Jonathan | last3=Gambaccini | first3=Paul | author1-link= Tim Rice <!-- No article for Johnathan Rice; the existing article Johnathan Rice is a different person --> | author3-link= Paul Gambaccini | title=Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums | publisher = Guinness World Records and Guinness Publishing | year=1990 | location=Enfield, Middlesex | isbn=0-85112-398-8}} </ref>
In 1979, Brett released an album entitled ''Echoes of Gold'', Warwick Records which appeared in the Top 20 of the UK Albums Chart. He received a gold disc for successful sales.<ref>{{Citation |title=Hits of the world - Britain |magazine=Billboard |date=1 December 1979 |page=47 |volume=91 |issue=48 |issn=0006-2510 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media | accessdate = 17 September 2009 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ECQEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Adrian%20Brett%22&pg=PT50 }}</ref>
Another album, ''Stepping Stones'', was later issued by Warwick. ''Stepping Stones'' peaked at number 53 in Australia in March 1982.<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=46}}</ref>
Brett also specialises in ethnic flutes and pipes. It was him who played the famous ocarina motif on Ennio Morricone's theme for "For A Few Dollars More". Years later he would play lead ethnic flutes on Mike Batt's score for the film "Caravans" starring Anthony Quinn and based on the James Michener novel. The exact same ocarina that he had used for Morricone's iconic hit was later used on Katie Melua's "Nine Million Bicycles" international hit, written and arranged by Batt <ref>Mike Batt memoirs</ref>
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110707220959/http://www.beckerensemble.com/Musicians%20Pages/Adrian%20Brett%20page.html Biography on Becker Ensemble of London site]
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