Brandon Sanders –
“Human Nature” (Feat. Christie Dashell) - Out Now
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Ambitious New Album The Tables Will Turn, Out October 4, 2024 On Savant Records
Upcoming tour dates in Boston, New York, Seattle and Los Angeles
Listen to previously available single “Miss Ernestine” here
In-demand jazz drummer Brandon Sanders has released “Human Nature,” the second single from his forthcoming full length The Tables Will Turn out October 4, 2024 via Savant Records.
Featuring vibraphonist Warren Wolf, pianist Keith Brown, bassist David Wong and reedist Chris Lewis the album features classics from Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk alongside compositions by McCoy Tyner and Tony Williams. There’s also Duke Ellington’s “Prelude to a Kiss” and Michael Jackson’s “Human Nature,” are both vocal numbers where Christie Dashiell joins the quintet.
“I'm an against-all-odds type of person,” Sanders says, sitting in his Brooklyn home.
The 53-year-old drummer took a circuitous route to The Tables Will Turn — the follow-up to his debut, Compton’s Finest.
He left his California home to attend the University of Kansas in the mid-’90s and studied communications, while also walking onto the school’s Division I basketball team.
Sanders would go on to earn an advanced degree in social work, before heading to the Berklee College of Music — and forming a decades-long bond with vibraphonist Warren Wolf — when he was 25 years old.
Sanders readily accessing the groove belies the potentially treacherous road he’s traversed. A part of that journey’s related on his composition “Central and El Segundo,” a tune written about a time and place in the drummer’s past growing up in Compton, California that still affects how he interacts with the world.
“The whole thing with this record is, no matter how rough life gets or no matter where you're from, if you stick with what you believe and stick with your mission, the tables will turn,” Sanders said. “So, you have a guy getting chased at the intersection of Central and El Segundo in Compton, and he stuck with it. To be honest, at 19 years old, I told someone I wanted to play the drums, and he said, ‘Man, if you hadn't started at 3 years old, forget it.’”
Bandleader Willie Jones III, who first met the drummer about a decade back, has produced both of Sanders’ recordings for Savant Records and watched the Compton native’s compositional acumen grow.
Sanders, who’s already begun working out ideas for his third leader date, said he never saw jazz as a way to make money or earn notoriety. It’s a forum to tell his own story.
“At 25, I didn't know a paradiddle from a double-stroke roll,” he said. “I just stuck with it.”
Brandon Sanders On Tour:
9/26 – Scullers Jazz Club – Boston, MA
10/5 – Sista’s Place – Brooklyn, NY
10/18-19 – Seattle Jazz Fellowship – Seattle, WA
11/29 – The World Stage – Los Angeles, CA
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