Music in The Moonlight Jazz Series with Don Braden Set for 4/21 at Luna Stage

Luna Stage continues its Jazz Series with "R&B Goes Jazz", featuring critically acclaimed saxophonist and flutist Don Braden. 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. "R&B Goes Jazz" will be presented on Sunday, April 21st at 7:30pm. Tickets are on sale now ($18 in advance, $20 at the door) and can be purchased in person, over the phone at 973-395-5551, or on the Luna Stage website: www.lunastage.org.

South Orange-based Braden is a musician of the highest caliber. Peter Watrous of the New York Times has called him "...brilliant and assured..." 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.