PREVIOUS CD RELEASE
on HighNote Records: Gentle Storm - The Don Braden Quartet, featuring a collection of contem- porary & classic standards & original music! It made Top 5 in the national Jazz radio chart. Released July 15, 2008.
Copyright © 2011 by Don Braden
  World-Class Jazz Musician, playing Tenor/Soprano Saxophones
  Also plays Flute, Alto Flute, Piano and other instruments
  Recording Artist with 15 CDs as a Leader
  Award Winning Composer, Arranger
  Producer, Audio Engineer
  Educator, Lecturer, Clinician
  Clinician / Endorser for R.S. Berkeley Saxophones & Flutes
  Coordinator of Jazz Studies at Montclair State University
  Music Director of the renowned Litchfield Jazz Camp
  Music Director of the NJPAC Wells Fargo Jazz for Teens Program
  Four years as Co-music supervisor for Bill Cosby's "Cosby" (CBS), co-composer/producer of theme songs for "Little Bill" and Cosby's Nickelodeon series, "Fatherhood."

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A Tribute to the Music of
Billy Strayhorn
If you are familiar with the jazz composition, “Take the A Train,” then you know something about not only Duke Ellington, but also Billy “Sweet Pea” Strayhorn, its composer. Strayhorn joined Duke Ellington’s band in 1939, at the age of twenty-two. Ellington liked what he saw in Billy and took this shy, talented pianist
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Braden-Rapp
The Strayhorn Project
BRAND NEW CD OUT SOON (Click CDs for Info)!