Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US black/campus) a person, esp. as a greeting, ‘Breeze!’.

1966		Current Sl. I:2 2/1: Breeze, n. Term of greeting.
1982		(con. 1970) J.M. Del Vecchio 13th Valley (1983) 1: I don’t cut ’em [i.e. orders], Breeze [...] I just pass em out. [Ibid.] 252: Take it easy, Breeze.