A soul full of jazz

Brandon Woody is a prominent jazz trumpeter from Baltimore, M.D.

Brandon Woody fell in love with the trumpet as a kid.

Growing up in Northeast Baltimore, Maryland, Woody, 24, attended the Baltimore School for the Arts. Honing his skills in high school lead him to be accepted to the Manhattan School of Music. While there, he founded UPENDO in 2015, a jazz band that has now toured internationally and performs along the…