Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Kansas City Jazz Drummer, Performer, Producer and Educator Brandon Draper .. He’s a restless sort of cat who a friend just aptly called him a chameleon .. He grew up in Lindsborg, Kansas and went to Bethany College there .. Then moved on to University of New Mexico – Over the years, he’s been a a lot of different outfits other than jazz .. Like with the Turkish-Jazz group Alaturka and toured the U.S. with the live-tronica pioneers Particle – He also play guitars with his father who is a a renowned Hammond B3 organist - in The Draper Family Band and he runs the acclaimed children's interactive music program Drum Safari with his wife of 14 years Teryn. These days he is on the music faculty at the University of Kansas and always has a plan moving in forward motion ..

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