Braun’s family
had been very musical. His mother was a self-taught pianist and banjo player
and, he himself used to play drums in high school. He began playing the trumpet
just after his elder brother started playing it. He had made up his mind to be
a doctor or a musician but preferred to be a musician because of the fact that
he was not able to outshine at mathematics and praises his high school music
teacher for making him efficient in this field. In the 1970s, Braun joined the
Eastman School of Music, and being a student there he turn out to be a member
of a jazz-fusion band, Auracle which comprised of pianist John Serry. With that
band, they were able to win a contest and functioned with Miles Davis producer
TeoMacero for 2 music albums. Before getting onto a solo career, Braun got his
jump by performing in numerous bands, working as a term musician, exploring &
recording with War, Tina Turner, Glenn Frey, Natalie Cole, Sade, Tom Petty, Rod
Stewart & Crowded House.
Kirk Whalum was
born in Memphis, Tennessee. He joined Melrose High School and Texas Southern
University where he managed to become a member of the World Famous Ocean of
Soul Marching Band. Besides singing in his father's church chorus, Whalum was
educated to adore music from his grandma, Thelma Twigg Whalum, was a piano
teacher, and his 2 uncles, Wendell Whalum and Hugh "Peanuts" Whalum,
used to perform with jazz bands across the country. He told John H. Johnson's
magazine Ebony Man in a 1994 profile, "The music I like to play and write
encompasses the four elements I grew up with: Memphis R&B, gospel, rock,
and jazz. The emphasis, though, is on melody, period." In the year 1986,
he presented a thrilling performance at Jean Michel Jarre's huge concerts
Rendez-Vous Lyon & Rendez-Vous Houston. At every concert, he acted upon the
track "Last Rendez-Vous", also known as "Ron's Piece", in
place of Jarre and Whalum's common friend, saxophonist and astronaut Ron
McNair, who breathed his last in the Challenger disaster. He has explored with
Whitney Houston for more than 7 years and soloed in her single "I Will
Always Love You", which became the best-selling single by a female artist
in the music history.
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