NJ: R&B GOES JAZZ: DON BRADEN AT LUNA STAGE
LUNA STAGE (555 Valley Road, West Orange, NJ - 973-395-5551) continues its Jazz Series with "R&B Goes Jazz", featuring critically acclaimed saxophonist and flutist Don Braden on Sunday, April 21st at 7:30 pm. Braden, performing with drummer Cecil Brooks III and others, will play his contemporary standards repertoire, featuring Jazz arrangements of songs by Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind and Fire, Roberta Flack and others. He will also perform some of his original compositions. South Orange-based Braden is a musician of the highest caliber. He has toured the world for many years leading his own ensembles and as a special guest and sideman for greats such as Betty Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, Tony Williams, Roy Haynes. He is an accomplished composer, having composed music for everything from duos to full symphonic orchestras. He has composed in many different styles for recordings, film, and television, and worked for several years as a composer for Bill Cosby. Braden is an imaginative, technically excellent, soulful saxophonist, who brings a unique approach to both improvisation and composition. He has a beautiful sound and, best of all, he swings. Tickets are $20.
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