Mark Braud



Mark Braud (06.21.1973 - ) is a New Orleans jazz trumpeter who is a current member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and who has performed with recording artists like Harry Connick, Jr. and Dr. Michael White's Original Liberty Jazz Band, Henry Butler, and R&B singer Eddie Bo.

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Braud is the grandson of legendary New Orleans trumpeter John "Picket" Brunious, Sr. and the nephew of jazz trumpeters and Preservation Hall Jazz Band leaders Wendell Brunious and John Brunious, Jr.. Braud is also a distant relative of Duke Ellington Orchestra bassist Wellman Braud and the Santiago family.

Mark began playing the trumpet at age 12, then began his professional career at age 15 playing with the Olympia Kids, a younger players' unit of the Olympia Brass Band and at trad-jazz Crescent City clubs like the Palm Court Jazz Cafe. He did a stint with the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band.

He majored in Jazz Studies at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (UNO), a New Orleans fine arts high school that also produced jazz greats like Connick, Branford Marsalis and Nicholas Payton. In 1994, he was chosen to perform in the UNO annual European Tour.

Braud has played for Harry Connick since 2001. He has been featured in several of his albums including Oh, My NOLA (2007)

He has his own jazz band, The New Orleans Jazz Giants, which plays at local clubs, tour dates, and performs periodically at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. He also leads a local brass band The Basin Street Brass Band.

While he plays trad-jazz, Braud cites Frog Joseph and Percy Humphrey who brought their own musical style to traditional forms, as inspirations.

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 * 2001 Harry Connick Jr. Big Band (Current Member).
 * 2002 "One Mo' Time" - Broadway Musical

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 * Preservation Hall Jazz Band Biography
 * Mark Braud website]
 * Mark Braud facebook