David Brandom
David Brandom
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About David Brandom
Over the years, saxophonist David Brandom has made a career of working with a wide range of recording artists. Besides touring and recording with Frank Sinatra for many years, David has worked with many great artists including: Paul Anka, Tony Bennett, Randy Brecker, Bobby Caldwell, Bill Charlap, Natalie Cole, Sammy Davis Jr., Jon Faddis, Billy Joel, Elton John, Melissa Manchester, David Matthew¹s Super Latin Jazz Orchestra, Johnny Mathis, Maria Scheider¹s Big Band, Doc Severinson, Sting, James Taylor, They Might Be Giants, Frank Sinatra Jr., The Spinners, The Temptations, and The Four Tops. David has also played in many Broadway shows including: "Ain¹t Misbehavin," "Annie," "Annie Get Your Gun," "Cats," "Chicago," "Fosse," "Grease," "Hairspray," "In the Heights" "Jersey Boys," and "The Wild Party." Dave is also a founding member of the Westchester Jazz Orchestra. Originally from Liberty Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City, David gives his mother, an art teacher and his father, a machinist credit for his appreciation for art and music. His father who sang tenor at church and occasionally in a barbershop quartet, had a small but varied collection of albums that ran the gammet from barber shop quartets to bluegrass to jazz greats like: Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson and even some Art Tatum and Charlie Parker. It was the lyricism of Stan Getz that inspired David to take up the alto sax at age 10. "I remember listening to music so much when I was growing up. Whether it was my father¹s jazz records or my sister¹s Beatles and later my Motown, Chicago and Crosby Stills and Nash, I was always listening." After high school Dave accepted a scholarship and later received his Bachelor¹s in Music Education from the highly competitive, University of North Texas where he was exposed to a wealth of great music, teaching and students. After graduation, Dave accepted a graduate assistantship, teaching private sax at North Texas. When it was time to leave academia, David moved back to Kansas City to play music full time and marry his high school sweetheart. Kansas City with it¹s great jazz tradition provided a variety of musical settings and Dave¹s versatility made him very much in demand. In Kansas City, Dave switched from alto to tenor sax and soon joined "Stan Kessler and The Flat Five," along with drummer Ron Vincent, and guitarist Steve Cardenas. Dave studied harmony with John Elliott and began writing and arranging for his own Quartet and his latin jazz group called "The Guacamole Band." In 1983, Dave moved to Chicago while his wife Stacy attended Northwestern. There, Dave broke in quickly and worked with The Buddy Childers' and The Jazz Members' Big Bands. One year later Dave moved to Brooklyn, New York and immediately began gigging; playing big band gigs with Tom Pierson and Ed Palermo, and swing gigs with Stan Rubin and Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks. Dave, Stacy and their boys moved to Westchester in 1989 and Dave turned his attention again to writing and teaching. A highly respected music educator, David is currently a member of the jazz faculty at Lehigh University and Purchase College in New York where he received a Master¹s Degree in Studio Composition. David feels that his broad range of musical experiences and tastes has shaped his playing and writing in a positive way. "I can¹t listen to too much of one type of music for too long. The scenery¹s got to change every so often." Dave lists as influences on his writing: Pat Metheney, Wayne Shorter, Ivan Lins, Horace Silver and The Yellowjackets; and Bird, Coltrane, Stan Getz, Joe Henderson, Hank Mobley, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Michael Brecker, Bob Mintzer on his playing. Since moving to New York, David has studied composition with Edgar Grana, arranging with Don Sebesky, clarinet with Bill Blount and Eddie Daniels, flute with Keith Underwood, and saxophone with Joe Allard, Michael Brecker, George Coleman, Dave Tofani, and Walt Weiskoff. http://www.davidbrandom.com
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