Jaimeo Brown

Drummer and bandleader Jaimeo Dark brown is a forward-thinking musician using a genre-crossing cosmetic that combines jazz, blues, hip-hop, African-American spirituals, and East Indian customs. The boy of jazz musician parents, Dark brown grew up hearing several designs from jazz to hip-hop. Nevertheless, it wasn’t until his junior season of senior high school that he began playing and learning drums. Dark brown excelled quickly, ultimately searching for the jazz plan at William Paterson College or university, where, for his mature thesis, he looked into the influence from the dark cathedral on jazz. Also during his period at William Paterson, Dark brown researched the tabla and started sketching parallels between African-American spirituals and East Indian music. After graduating in 2001, he discovered utilize a variety of performers, including stints with Bobby Hutcherson, Greg Tardy, Kenny Garrett, Wynton Marsalis, Q-Tip, as well as the Mingus Big Music group. In 2007, Dark brown signed up for postgraduate research at Rutgers College or university, where he gained his master’s level. Since that time, he offers toured the center East like a jazz ambassador and continuing his recording profession, showing up on such albums as Geri Allen’s A KID EXISTS (2011), Craig Brann’s Introduction(ure) (2013), and Joe Locke’s LAY OUT My Center: Blues & Ballads, Vol. 1 (2013). In 2013, Dark brown produced his debut like a leader using the expansive Transcendence on Motéma Music. In 2016, he came back along with his second recording, Work Tunes, released beneath the music group name Jaimeo Dark brown Transcendence and having a likewise ambitious if even more pared-down trio audio featuring guitarist/maker Chris Sholar.