Missy Lane's Assembly Room - Venue

Marion was born in West Virginia and grew up in Stamford, Connecticut. He began playing the clarinet and studying classical music at the age of nine.

He started playing tenor sax in high school, and then migrated to soprano sax. His passion for various types of

music led him down an eclectic musical path.

Meadows attended Berklee College of Music. There he majored in arranging and composition. He later went to the SUNY Purchase School for the Arts. During his college years he played in a number of bands including disco, R&B and

various jazz ensembles. Meadows perfected his craft studying with Sonny Fortune, Joe Henderson, Dave Liebman and Eddie Daniels. “Not long after I finished school, (drummer) Norman Connors recorded one of my songs, “Invitation” and then asked me to join his band. I later produced his Passion album with my colleague Jacques Burvick (Aquarium Dream).

Things just fell into place. Meadows first hit the airwaves in 1991 with “For Lovers Only”, but his career really began one day in the late ‘80s atNew York’s Grand Central Station. He had been a sideman with Connors for three years, with only vague notions of eventually going solo.

One day, while waiting for a train, he pulled out his horn and began playing under the huge dome. His sweet sound caught the attention of fellow traveler, producer and TV composer Jay Chattaway, who happened to be passing by on his way to the train. Chattaway was so impressed with Meadows’ sound that he hooked Meadows up with legendary keyboardist Bob James. Meadows and James collaborated on a recording that unfortunately went unreleased. The experience put him on the road to his eventual success. Meadows hooked up with numerous artists and musicians and became a well-known sideman in his own right, recording or performing over the years with Brook Benton, Eartha Kitt, Phyllis Hyman, Jean Carne, The Temptations, Michael Bolton, Angela Bofill, Will Downing, Bob Baldwin, Chuck Loeb, John Lee, among many others.

In the late ‘80s, Meadows stretched his boundaries by becoming a member of a New York avant-garde band called the Aboriginal Music Society. In 1990 Meadows submitted a solo project to Steve Backer at Novus/RCA and was signed to a recording contract, thus marking the beginning of his solo career. Meadows’ first RCA release “For Lover’s Only” was a huge success and was followed by his groundbreaking “Keep it Right There” album. He became a staple of the contemporary jazz format with his subsequent recordings, which include Body Rhythm (1994) and Forbidden Fruit (1996), Passion (1997), Another Side Of Midnight (1999), Next To You (2000), In Deep (2002), Players Club (2004), Dressed To Chill (2006), Secrets (2009) Whisper (2013) and most recently Soul Traveler, the first installment of his Soul Trilogy which now showcases his current release, Soul City" on the New York-based Shanachie Label.

VIP BOOTH SEATING: Includes 4 seats on the windowed wall and 1 house standard bottle & bottle service. A bottle menu will be provided prior to the show. Premium bottles will incur an up-charge.

Ticketing fees include State and County Sales & Use Tax, Etix fees and credit card processing fees.

About 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. In 2013, Braxton 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, Braxton
toured with Grammy Award-nominated trumpeter Christian Scott and became a
long-term member in Christian’s band honing his skills on the road. He has also
toured and performed with Christian McBride Big Band, Jon Batiste and Marquis Hill
among others. In 2017, Fader Magazine named Braxton a “Jazz Marvel” and “Jazz
Prodigy.” And shortly after, Braxton was listed as Top Five Jazz Artist to Watch
(alongside Robert Glasper, Kamasi Washington, Butcher Brown, and Kris Bowers) in
the 2018 June Issue of Ebony Magazine. Braxton has released six projects: his debut
EP Sketch (2014), Braxton Cook Meets Butcher Brown (2015), Somewhere in
Between (2017), No Doubt (2018), Fire Signs (2020) and Who Are You When No One
Is Watching (2023). Braxton currently resides in Los Angeles, CA with his wife and
son.

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