Emmy Award-Winning, Juilliard-trained saxophonist, singer, songwriter and jazz prodigy Braxton Cook is one of this generation’s most exciting voices. In 2013, Braxton was selected as a semi-finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition. In 2015, he graduated from The Juilliard School, where he studied Jazz Composition. While a student, Braxton toured with Grammy Award-nominated trumpeter Christian Scott and has since toured and performed with Christian McBride Big Band, Jon Batiste, Tom Misch, and Marquis Hill, among others.His 2018 release, No Doubt debuted #2 on iTunes Jazz Chart, amassing 1M streams in its first month. Five (previously independently-released) projects later, Fader Magazine has named Braxton a "Jazz Marvel" and "Jazz Prodigy," The New Yorker describes his music as "visceral" and "virtuosic," and Ebony Magazine listed Braxton as a "Top Five Jazz Artist to Watch" (alongside Robert Glasper, Kamasi Washington, Butcher Brown, and Kris Bowers). Other press highlights include NPR "Tiny Desk" and features with BET, Okayplayer, Billboard, Interview Magazine and PAPER.In 2022, Braxton made his Nettwerk debut with the striking new EP, Black Mona Lisa. The milestone project sees Cook reflect on themes of black love and excellence juxtaposed with hard-hitting messages on social justice and police brutality. Single “MB (for Ma’Khia Bryant)” was inspired by the death of the 16-year-old Ohio girl who was murdered by police in April of 2021. Braxton makes an impassioned statement not only on the racial injustices that continue to inflict disproportionate harm on the black community but also to bring light to those names that don’t always make the headlines. The release received positive acclaim from NPR Music, OkayPlayer, PAPER, Jazziz Magazine and more.  Black Mona Lisa served as the springboard for Braxton to expand his musical concept, compositional, and production skills. This vision becomes fully released on his fifth full-length, the seventeen-song epic, Who Are You When No One is Watching? released in 2023. The title incites themes of perception and Braxton addresses viewpoints on race injustice, love in the media, marriage, fatherhood, and what it means to succeed in our world. "I feel a lot," says Braxton. "I’m a deeply emotional person. I just love. You know what I mean? Like, I love my family. I love my people. I love my friends. I love music. I have a belief that things can and will be better." His new release holds up a mirror to ourselves and the society around us. It’s at once confrontational, thoughtful, sentimental. "People need to see themselves, to some degree. Even if I’m speaking about tragedy, there’s still that glimmer of hope I infuse in my music." Which is to say, Who Are You When No One Is Watching? is also very much a thing of beauty.