BRENT LAIDLER
Genres: Soul Jazz, Post-Fusion Contemporary, Latin Jazz, Hard Bop • United States

Brent attended Western Michigan University, majoring in Music Education with a minor in Composition. He also attended Red Wing Technical Institute for Band Instrument Repair, owns and operates Brent’s Bench, Inc. Band Instrument Repair Shop in Lafayette and has developed an extensive professional and collegiate faculty clientele during more than three decades of dedicated service to the industry. His endorsements include Purdue Bands, Jacobs School of Music, DePauw, Butler, Ball State Universities and the Indianapolis Symphony as well as three different DCI Corps and the International Trumpet Guild. Brent is a Jazz Clinician and member of the Indiana Jazz Educator’s Association as well as being a composer and performer. He has performed and recorded with Randy Salman, Leonard Foy and Brent Wallarab from the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra with David Baker.  He has appeared with Broadway artist Michael Mandel, Comedian/Impersonator Rich Little, instrumentalists Mark Buselli, Freddie Mendoza, Kenny Phelps, The Lafayette read more...