Event Calendar
Don Braden Quartet
Friday, October 23, 2020, 7:30 pm
Jazz Tributes to Contemporary Masters
Legendary jazz artist Don Braden returns with his band to Miller Symphony Hall for a special live-streamed performance of Jazz Tributes to Contemporary Masters. All compositions on the slate for this extraordinary show are written by Braden and honor Earth, Wind and Fire, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Marvin Gaye, statesman and civil rights icon John Lewis ("Good Trouble"), and more. Streaming live from the stage of Miller Symphony Hall. Watch LIVE on your own device.
Don Braden, saxophone/flute
Art Hirahara, piano
Kenny Davis, bass
Jeremy Warren, drums
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Don Braden Biography
Saxophonist and flutist Don Braden is known around the world as an exciting and interactive jazz soloist, a creative and prolific composer, and a passionate and energetic educator. He is also known as a specialist at arranging and performing classic popular songs in the modern jazz style. For over 30 years he has toured the world leading his own ensembles, as a special guest, and as a sideman with Jazz greats Betty Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, Tony Williams, Roy Haynes, and many others. He has composed music in various styles for ensembles ranging from duo to full symphonic orchestra, for recordings (including 21 CDs as a leader and over 80 as a sideman), film, and the television networks Nickelodeon and CBS. His latest CD Earth Wind and Wonder features his quartets performing jazz interpretations of songs by R&B titans Earth Wind and Fire and Stevie Wonder. He has spent over two decades giving master classes at countless schools and universities, and running first class educational programs such as the Litchfield Jazz Camp, NJPAC's Wells Fargo Jazz For Teens, and most recently, the Harvard University Monday Jazz Band. He is an imaginative, technically excellent, soulful player, and his harmonic and rhythmic sophistication give him a unique approach to improvising as well as composing and arranging. Most important of all: he has a beautiful sound, and he swings! All this combines with his joyous yet disciplined personality to make him one of the most important musicians working today.
More information on Don Braden is available at www.DonBraden.com.