This week 9.23.2024 Monday Jazz @ Brother Don’s celebrates the birth of one of Jazz histories most influential saxophonists, John Coltrane. Come join for our JOHN COLTRANE BIRTHDAY BASH featuring our special guest artist Rob Scheps on sax & flute. Oregon native Rob Scheps began studying the tenor saxophone at age nine. He grew up on Long Island, New York. After having graduated high school at age sixteen, he enrolled in the New England Conservatory. He received a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies with Honors in performance in 1986. While living in the Boston area he led his own groups; most notably the True Colors Big Band. In 1988 he moved to New York, formed the Rob Scheps Core-tet and Bartokking Heads and established himself as a formidable force on the jazz scene. Rob has his own citation in The Encyclopedia of Jazz.  Performed with legends such as Aretha Franklin, Buddy Rich, Gil Evans, and John Abercrombie.  He tours actively worldwide, and leads bands in New York, Seattle, Portland, Kansas City & Honolulu. Rob is also a member of the Mannes College of Music faculty, and a workshop clinician at Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Hunter, Lewis and Clark, UMKC/ Kansas City, Friends University (Wichita,KS), and Whitman Colleges
along with Portland State and the University of Connecticut.

Also in the band D’Vonne Lewis on drums, Randy Halberstadt on keys, Osama Afifi on bass, and Chris Bickley on sax.

Come enjoy great food, your favorite beverage, a comfortable kid friendly atmosphere, and WORLD CLASS JAZZ … hope to see you!