Braden, Don

Braden, Don, contemporary American jazz saxophonist; b. Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 20, 1963. Don Braden started playing contemporary jazz professionally at age 15 after two years of learning to play tenor sax in Louisville, Ky. After time at Harvard (during which he studied with Jerry Bergonzi and Bill Pierce), he moved to N.Y. in 1984 and began gigging with a variety of mainstream artists, starting with the Harper Brothers …