
From the nostalgic sounds of the mountains of his Appalachian homeplace, to the cosmic time-bending and harmonic flux of his imagination,Brandon ScottColemanMusical Alchemist
Upcoming
Shows
All dates →Barnweaver
Spherical Agenda w/Crystalline Machine & Touchdown Jesus
Brandon Coleman live at Radio Artifact
Cole Baker Trio
Jay Reynolds' Pop Smoothie Revue
Spherical Agenda
Jay Reynold's Pop Smoothie Revue
Barnweaver WAFFLE PARTY feat. Adam Chaffins
Musical Renegades: Mozart and Zappa
Brandon Coleman/Josh Kline/Justin Dawson/Josiah Wolf play Sonny Sharrock's "Ask The Ages"
Barnweaver, with Mary Chicken Soup & Rice and Toothy Grin
...is one of the best musicians I’ve worked with. He’s been central to Afrochine projects for over a decade , playing multiple instruments on stage and handling production, arranging, and writing for both live shows and broadcast television. Brandon is fluent in both analog and digital, and he actually knows why every note is where it is. Add a bluegrass sensibility that shows up in everything he touches, and you’ve got a rare collaborator. Intelligent, creative, and a joy to build with!
Not only is Brandon an incredible guitarist and musician, he is also very tech savvy and easy to work with. He has a unique ability to gently guide any artist to help get the music from their head onto the record, because he listens to understand with the end result in mind. Brandon knows every step to take from idea to finished piece, from demo to a mixed and mastered album. Be it arrangements, orchestration, performance or any part of the the recording process, Brandon Scott Coleman is a one-stop turnkey solution.
He plays with a fluidity and intelligence that suggests a long and satisfying career lies ahead.
Coleman certainly distinguishes himself as a player and composer of considerable ability.
There's something for everyone—every jazz fan, that is—on this fine sophomore outing.
If I have a question about any part of the creative process in music, I ask Brandon Coleman. From writing to recording, mixing and mastering, composing and arranging, road-dogging and performing, he's done it all at a high level.
I've had the privilege of working with Brandon as a bandmate and collaborator in many different musical contexts. He has also engineered and produced one of my albums. Along with being an incredible musician, he's one of the most knowledgeable guys I know with all things having to do with technology. On top of all of that, he's just an all around genuine dude and will do anything to help you out, especially if it means serving the music and trying to create the best art possible.
I’ve worked with Brandon across a few different parts of the recording process, and he really covers the full spectrum—mixing, mastering, composition, and everything in between. He’s got a great ear for dialing in a mix and bringing a track across the finish line, but he’s also quick to troubleshoot gear or fix whatever’s getting in the way. On top of that, he’s just a fun person to have in the room—funny, fast on his feet, and genuinely dedicated to getting things right and making the music better.
Listen
Hear the records, and take them home
Brandon is gradually re-releasing his discography onRatio.fm, a streaming service built around paying artists fairly. That's the one to use if you have a choice. The records themselves are on Bandcamp, as downloads and CDs.

The record
Trust Fall
Released September 27, 2024, with Matt Wiles on bass and Jeff Mellott on drums. Three original “Trust Fall” movements set among standards: Alone Together, Sonnymoon for Two, Darn That Dream, Invitation.
Scores & lead sheets
The charts, for your band or your students
The tunes are notated (full scores, parts, and lead sheets) but they aren't in a shop on this site yet. If there's something of his you want to play, email and say which tune and what you're playing it with.
Work with me
Arranging & orchestration
Strings, horns, full orchestra. Transcription, score preparation, engraving and part extraction. Arrangements performed by the Louisville Orchestra.
See the work →Mixing, mastering & production
Mixing, mastering, production days, and full album packages, from first downbeat to final delivery. Session guitar placed on ABC and Netflix programming.
See the work →The work
It runs from roots records with Ben Sollee and Barnweaver, through his own long-form writing for Chaos Magick and the fusion quartet Spherical Agenda, out to an orchestral Zappa program and Juan Trigos' operaElla‑Miau. That's an unusually wide road for one guitarist, and most of what he does is somewhere on it.
Ben Sollee
Writing, arranging, and playing with the Emmy Award-winning cellist and songwriter. Orchestral arrangements performed by the Louisville Orchestra.
Guitar, arranging, co-writingAmericanaBarnweaver
Cincinnati alt-Americana. Self-titled debut mixed by Grammy-nominated engineer Duane Lundy, and a public-radio feature to go with it.
GuitarJazzChaos Magick
His standing seven-piece: violin and cello, long-form composition and dynamic interplay, with Grammy-winning violinist Zach Brock.
Guitar, composition, bandleaderFusionSpherical Agenda
Original jazz-fusion quartet. Two albums recorded at Golden Mean Studios, in the lineage of Tony Williams Lifetime and Mahavishnu Orchestra.
GuitarOrchestral & new music
- John Adams conducting his own El NiñoMay Festival, May 2022
- World premiere of William Menefield's FierceCincinnati Opera, July 2022
- Zappa and MozartCincinnati Chamber Orchestra, August 2026