Braxton Cook

Braxton Cook is an Emmy Award-winning artist and one of this generation’s most exciting emerging voices in the jazz world. Braxton grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland and in 2013 was selected as a semi-finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition. In 2015, he graduated from The Juilliard School where he studied jazz composition. While a student at Juilliard, Cook toured with Grammy Award-nominated trumpeter Christian Scott and became a long-term member in Scott’s band honing his skills on the road. He has also toured and performed with the Christian McBride Big Band, Jon Batiste, and Marquis Hill among others.

In 2017, Fader Magazine named Braxton a “Jazz Marvel” and “Jazz Prodigy.” Shortly after, Cook was listed as a ‘Top Five Jazz Artist to Watch’ (alongside Robert Glasper, Kamasi Washington, Butcher Brown, and Kris Bowers) in the June 2018 issue of Ebony Magazine. Cook has released the following projects: his debut EP Sketch (2014), Braxton Cook Meets Butcher Brown (2015), Somewhere in Between (2017), No Doubt (2018), Fire Signs (2020), Who Are You When No One Is Watching (2023), and his latest EP – My Everything (2024). Cook currently resides in Los Angeles, CA with his wife and two sons.

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