Max Brown Sextet

This Thursday Jazz Night, we bring you the Max Brown Sextet!

Max Brown – Trombone, Compositions

Peter Mathistad – Tenor Saxophone, Compositions

Jules Dickey – Alto Sax/Clarinet, Compositions

Matt Blair – Piano

Aden Stier – Bass

Jordan Kowalski – Drums, Compositions

The Max Brown Sextet: features original compositions of straight ahead jazz that occasionally venture into free or unstructured improv, as well as music that fall into more of a fusion category. The group features a rotating group of talented young jazz musicians in the midwest and is fronted by trombonist Max Brown. The MB Sextet plays shows of entirely original music, sometimes all by Max and sometimes other band members.

The group has played in venues such as Merriman’s Playhouse (South Bend, IN), Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts (Milwaukee, WI), Fulton Street Collective (Chicago), and North Street Cabaret in Madison, WI.

Max Brown is a trombonist, composer, and arranger who plays music in all styles but mainly focuses on jazz. Max grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, and is an active member of the city’s jazz scene. He is additionally working his way into the jazz scenes in Chicago and Milwaukee. Along with being a freelancer, Max is the band leader of a jazz/original music sextet.

He has also built a presence in Indiana, where he spent 6 years from 2017 to 2023. He earned a Masters of Music in Jazz Studies – trombone from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (Bloomington IN) where he studied with Wayne Wallace, John Raymond, and Tom Walsh. Max also has a bachelor’s degree in classical trombone performance from Butler University in Indianapolis.

Website: maxbrownjazz.com/