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| Brandon Robertson |
Robertson
earned undergraduate and master’s degrees in music performance at Florida State
University in Tallahassee, where his mentors had sage advice. “They’ve all told
me to go out and make my own name for myself. Make my own success,” Robertson
says. “I just want to be positive, be professional and play as well as I can
play.”
He’s a busy addition to the Southwest Florida jazz scene since
moving here summer. He performs regularly at area jazz venues in addition to his
day job as an adjunct professor of instrumental studies at Florida Gulf Coast
University in Fort Myers. He has subbed for the regular bass player in the Count
Basie Orchestra. (More on that later.)
