Justin Brown (drummer)

Justin Brown (* 9. April 1984 in Richmond , California ) is an American jazz - drummer .

Live and act

Brown grew up in Oakland and played drums as a toddler; He gained his first experience as a musician in the Pentecostal Church . At the age of ten, he took lessons in the Young Musicians Summer Program at the University of California, Berkeley . In 2002 he received a scholarship to study at the Dave Brubeck Institute at the University of the Pacific . After graduating in 2004, he continued his studies at the Juilliard School in New York City. There he has since worked with musicians such as Kenny Garrett , Christian McBride , Gerald Clayton , Stefon Harris , Esperanza Spalding , Terence Blanchard , Josh Roseman , Gretchen Parlato , Yosvany Terry , Gonzalo Rubalcaba , Bilal , Marko Churnchetz and Vijay Iyer . Since the 2000s he has been a member of the quintet by Ambrose Akinmusire and Walter Smith III , which can be heard on the Blue Note album The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (2014). In 2009 he was a finalist in the Thelonious Monk competition . He also worked with Pacal and Remy Le Boeuf . In the field of jazz he was involved in 21 recording sessions between 2003 and 2014. Brown's album Nyeusi was voted Best Jazz Albums of 2018 by The New York Times .