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| Meet Earlie |
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Many people know Earlie
Braggs
as a charismatic person who helps people find music for many
occasions. He is best known, however, as a jazz trombonist,
bass
player and vocalist. Earlie Braggs is an
experienced jazz
professional with extensive training contributing to his professional
performance career. He has performed throughout the United
States
dating back to 1975. Some of these performances have been
with
music ensembles backing some of the worlds’ most renowned
jazz
artists and entertainers including trumpeters Cat
Anderson and Clark
Terry, clarinetist Henry
Questa, jazz violinist Claude
“Fiddler” Williams, jazz
pianist Jay
“Hootie” McShann, Della
Reese, Steve
Allen, Cab
Calloway, the Tommy
Dorsey Orchestra and the New
York Voices. From 1997 through 1999 he went on
several jazz tours with the Illinois
Jacquet Big Band
to Europe (France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, the Czech Republic,
Belgium), and the U.S.- Kansas City (Kansas City Jazz Festival),
Chicago (Chicago Jazz Festival) and New York's famous Lincoln Center.
It’s About Time is Earlie's first CD with the
Earlie
Braggs Quartet. His discography with other orchestra leaders
and
artists includes Mentor, with the Kerry
Strayer Septet
featuring Gary Foster, Kerry Strayer's Christmas in Kansas
City, and Steppin’ Out, with the Jazz
Heritage Orchestra (a professional jazz orchestra
organized through the Black Studies Department. at Cleveland State
University), among others. |
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| See Earlie |
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Thursday August 7, 5:30PM
with Quint Essential Bones
Clocktower Green
8880 N. 32nd St, Richland
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Thursday August 21, 5:30PM
The Earlie Braggs Quartet
Clocktower Green
8880 N. 32nd St, Richland |
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