Drummer - Brannen Temple

Jazz and Funk explorations

Brannen Temple - Austin, TX native. Drummer for Sheena Easton, Janet Jackson, Robben Ford, Chaka Khan, Chris Duarte Group, etc. gets fed up only playing other musician's music and decides to lead his own groups. Dealing in instumental Jazz and Funk his crisp, subtlely tasteful drumming (influenced by Elvin Jones, Jack DeJohnette, Dennis Chambers, Steve Jordan, etc...) has lead him to conceptualize, compose, arrange, collaborate, and produce these 5 diverse and high spirited CDs. BLAZE - (earlier) a modern jazz quintet with a twist is basically modeled after Miles Davis' late 1960's groups. Later the band spreads into more hip-hop and funk territory while still keeping it's improvisational base. AND... HOT BUTTERED RHYTHM - 2 combined rhythm sections (2 keyboards, 2 bassists, 2 drummers) get into some inter-steller funk, soul and you guess it, jazz. I don't want to see you crying because 'nobody told you about this music.' Don't get left out, Check it out!

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