Brandon Seabrook

Brandon Seabrook is a NYC-based guitarist and banjoist. His music fuses a wide range of traditions: punk rock, jazz, pop, and metal. As an instrumentalist his work feeds off tactile sensations; rapid tremolo picking, contorted clusters, humor, jump cuts, lyricism, and extreme physicality. A fixture of New York’s avant-garde scene, he has been described by Rolling Stone’s Hank Shteamer as a musician whose bands combine “serious chops with manic intensity and a left-field compositional vision,” while Premier Guitar’s Ryan Reed has called him a “resident chaos architect” exploring everything from jazz-fusion to brutal prog and heavy rock. Across eleven albums as a leader and collaborations with artists ranging from Anthony Braxton and Cécile McLorin Salvant to David Byrne and Mike Watt, Seabrook has consistently refused to sit still. He has led his bands to perform at Big Ears, Jazz Em Agosto, Centro D’arte, Jazz Is Dead, Moers Festival, Angel City Jazz Festival… In 2026 he will release two new albums of original material - “Hellbent Daydream” featuring pianist and synthesist Elias Stemeseder, bassist Henry Fraser, and violinist Erica Dicker and a new double guitar quartet “Utility Modern” featuring living legends Bill Frisell, Marcus, Gilmore, and Rashaan Carter, due in October 2026.