Braden Jones is a Tennessee-based musician with a passion for drums and the fire to share his songs with the world. He holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Tennessee. He is currently earning his Master\u2019s degree of Music from the Eastman School of Music, where he serves as the Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Jazz Percussion Studio. Furthermore, Braden has continued his personal private instruction and has instructed at the School of Rock Knoxville, School of Rock Rochester, Knox Music Studios, and the Percussive Arts Academy.<\/p>\n
Braden has manned the rhythm section of his bands Okay Karma and The Harbingers. He has played with artists like Gregory Tardy, Jon Hamar, Jack Roben, Eric Reed, Taber Gable, Bernell Jones, and Margherita Fava, where he has performed with Knoxville Jazz Orchestra and the sponsored concert series, NXT GEN and Jazz on the Square. He has also performed with Rica Chicha, which he performed with at the 2023 Big Ears Festival.<\/p>\n
Most recently, Braden has performed with the Eastman Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Christine Jensen and has performed in small jazz ensembles coached by Gary Versace and Clay Jenkins. Braden also is an active member of the Eastman Gamelan Ensemble and Eastman Studio Orchestra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":315,"featured_media":33477,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"faculty-category":[193],"faculty-instrument":[159],"faculty-department":[142],"faculty-ensemble":[],"faculty-type":[2011],"faculty-tag":[],"class_list":["post-31892","ecms-faculty","type-ecms-faculty","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","faculty-category-switching","faculty-instrument-drum-set","faculty-department-jazz-studies","faculty-type-student-teacher"],"acf":[],"mb":[],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/files\/Braden-Jones-NEW-e1758898356764.jpeg","coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/author\/alison-mack\/","display_name":"Alison Mack"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 9 months ago","modified":"Updated 7 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on July 15, 2025","modified":"Updated on September 26, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on July 15, 2025 11:03 AM","modified":"Updated on September 26, 2025 10:52 AM"},"featured_img_caption":"","tax_additional":{"faculty-category":{"linked":["Switching<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Switching<\/span>"],"slug":"faculty-category","name":"ECMS Faculty Categories"},"faculty-instrument":{"linked":["Drum Set<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Drum Set<\/span>"],"slug":"faculty-instrument","name":"ECMS Faculty Instruments"},"faculty-department":{"linked":["Jazz Studies<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Jazz Studies<\/span>"],"slug":"faculty-department","name":"ECMS Faculty Departments"},"faculty-ensemble":{"linked":[],"unlinked":[],"slug":"faculty-ensemble","name":"ECMS Faculty Ensembles"},"faculty-type":{"linked":["Student Teacher<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Student Teacher<\/span>"],"slug":"faculty-type","name":"ECMS Faculty Types"},"faculty-tag":{"linked":[],"unlinked":[],"slug":"faculty-tag","name":"ECMS Faculty Tags"}},"series_order":"","mfb_rest_fields":["title","author","featured_img","coauthors","author_meta","relative_dates","absolute_dates","absolute_dates_time","featured_img_caption","tax_additional","series_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ecms-faculty\/31892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ecms-faculty"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ecms-faculty"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ecms-faculty\/31892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31900,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ecms-faculty\/31892\/revisions\/31900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faculty-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-category?post=31892"},{"taxonomy":"faculty-instrument","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-instrument?post=31892"},{"taxonomy":"faculty-department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-department?post=31892"},{"taxonomy":"faculty-ensemble","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-ensemble?post=31892"},{"taxonomy":"faculty-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-type?post=31892"},{"taxonomy":"faculty-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-tag?post=31892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}