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A Peter White Christmas Featuring Rick Braun And Mindi Abair
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A Peter White Christmas featuring Rick Braun and Mindi Abair provides the common platform for these two great saxophonist to come together and deliver one memorable show.
Rick Braun is a smooth jazz trumpet player. He started his musical carrier by playing in several bands. His previous alliance includes Avenue Blue, which was led by guitarist Jeff Golub. Braun has a trumpet solo in the band's remake of 'Pick up the Pieces,' which had been a hit by the Average White Band during the 1970s.
Allentown, Pennsylvania native Rick Braun had his way, he would be a drummer today. Rick traces his critical decision to the third grade at Allentown's now-demolished Stevens Elementary School. 'With a big family and a small house, drums weren't exactly smiled upon.' The trumpet, his eventual instrument of choice, was a 'little less painful' for other family members than his other choice - the violin. It seems music was always Braun's destiny, career choice, as even when he was a student at Trexler Middle School and Dieruff High. 'I really couldn't do anything else. Mine was a career by default. I always had this love of music, and it always came fairly easily to me. It hasn't been a real struggle for me. From an early age, I was playing along with all the Herb Alpert records.'
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Show Biography - A Peter White Christmas Featuring Rick Braun And Mindi Abair
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 After alienating from bands, Braun got the kick start for his solo career that was again very successful . The most successful and memorable collaboration was with saxophonist Boney James, as they did a duet off the remake of the Hugh Masekela classic 'Grazin' in the Grass.' In addition to his solo career, Braun also plays in the band BWB, with saxophonist Kirk Whalum and guitarist Norman Brown. In 2005, he and saxophonist Richard Elliot co-founded a new label, ARTizen Music Group.
Mindi Abair is an American smooth jazz saxophonist with a strong Top-40 pop music background. She was a backing musician for such acts as Mandy Moore and the Backstreet Boys, and often appeared in their tours.
In 2003, Abair took a chance by trying to play jazz and luckily the move proved to be an enormous success. Often billed as 'the second coming of Candy Dulfer,' she scored big hits like 'Lucy's,' 'Flirt,' and 'Save the Last Dance'. Mindi also sings occasionally, as evidenced by her vocal cover version of the Eagle-Eye Cherry hit 'Save Tonight' on her debut album.
Abair is multi-talented artist as she is equally good in playing the flute and keyboards. She has the honor of being named the Best New Artist at 2003's National Smooth Jazz Awards, it's been a wild few years, and her 2004 follow-up disc Come As You Are which dug into deeper emotional and stylistic territory while spawning two more hit singles kept the momentum jetting skyward. Her songs have been featured on everything from Aaron Spelling's hit 'Summerland' to a Women in Jazz feature at the Grammys to Panasonic's Jumbotron in Times Square. But as gratifying as these landmark career achievements are, that's not what inspired her to view 2005 as a year in which she lived a 'life less ordinary'.
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