A vibrantly gifted jazz drummer, Brandon Sanders is known for his hard-swinging, yet sophisticated approach to acoustic post-bop jazz. Raised on the West Coast, he first garnered attention in the 2000s after moving to New York City and playing with artists like Joe Lovano, Mike LeDonne, and Esperanza Spalding. In 2023, he made his solo debut with Compton's Finest.
Sanders was born in 1971 in Kansas City, Kansas, and moved with his mother to Los Angeles at the age of two. Settling in Compton, he grew up in a musical family with his mother who played violin and stepfather who p...