🎷Offstage with Okayplayer: braxton_cook on Freedom, Collaboration & the Continuum of Black Music 🎶

Caught between sets at The Blue Note Jazz Festival: Black Radio Experience with Robert Glasper, Braxton Cook sat down with OKP fam isanaka to talk all things sound, soul, and staying free.
For Braxton — the Maryland-raised saxophonist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist — jazz isn’t just genre. It’s lineage. “It’s the past and the future all at once — a continuum of our experience here,” he says. From The Roots to Digable Planets to Esperanza Spalding, it’s all connected — one evolving conversation in Black music. 🖤

Fresh off his latest project Not Everyone Can Go, Braxton reflects on growth, gratitude, and what it means to keep creating with intention — blending jazz, R&B, and truth until they’re inseparable.

🎥 Tap in for a soulful convo that lives right where heritage meets now.
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