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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RECENT RELEASE
Braden-Rapp
The Strayhorn Project
BRAND NEW CD OUT SOON (Click CDs for Info)!