Jeff Bradshaw

“Take a Quincy Jones approach to the album. Approach the album like a producer and the producer just so happens to be a trombone player. I approach the album like a movie soundtrack. I approach it like a producer, which I am. I want you to love the music that I wrote and produced. These concepts that I put together on these albums,” is how Jeff Bradshaw explains his intricate process for creating albums that, along with his humble beginnings growing up playing in the church, have led to widespread success, and the opportunities to work with the likes of Michael Jackson, Patti Labelle, Jay Z, Mary J Blige, and more.

Since the release of his debut album, “Bone Deep” in 2003, Jeff Bradshaw has had 20 years of valuable experiences that have shaped him into the veteran multi-instrumentalist, producer, and writer that listeners know and love today. As Jeff gears up for the release of his next album, affectionately titled “Jeff Bradshaw: XX”, he is confident listeners will still experience his music with the same unique sense of wonder as when they first heard him.

“20 years man. It means to me, blessed relevant, excited, young, and hungry. All those things I still am excited about the music and excited for people to hear it. I’m still going to create these beautiful songs and the trombone is going to play a different role in every song,” he says. Each song from his album has such a unique story behind it, listeners will feel the movie soundtrack of Jeff Bradshaw’s life from his early days playing in church to the 20 years of releasing music and touring and everything in between come to life.

The first single, “Carrie’s Bread Puddin” is what Bradshaw calls a “southern church, hip-hop D’Angelo swag” style song honoring his mother’s life and her famous bread pudding.

“I decided to put my mother’s name right on the front of it. It’s about celebrating her. She’s like the lady in church in the third row with the big hat. The song is about celebrating the love and life of my mother, Carrie Bradshaw, my hero. The most amazing person I know walking the earth and her famous bread pudding. When you taste it you’ll never be the same. All my life people have asked my mom to make her bread pudding for little events they were having at home,” he says.

But that’s not the only interesting story, another song from “Jeff Bradshaw: XX”, titled “Dubai Voices” has been serving as the opening number on the legendary radio show,“The Quiet Storm” in Philadelphia for over a year and a half.

“Philadelphians have heard that song on the radio. Now people will be able to download it, own it, and be able to have it for themselves which is awesome,” he says. As Jeff Bradshaw reflects on the past 20 years and gears up for the next 20 years starting with the release of his new album, he’s reminding listeners that he’s staying true to his roots and thinking outside of the box just as he’s always done.

“I’m here to stay. My music is good now and as it was with Bone Deep in 2003. People will be as excited now as they were then. I’m smarter, a better horn player, and better as a producer and I’m still not scared to take risks,” – Jeff Bradshaw