Tap Percussionist Chandler Browne’s deep listening began as a child when they heard Robert Hurst’s "Brother Tryin’ to Catch a Cab” off Branford Marsalis’ I Heard You Twice The First Time record as a ‘driveway moment’ in the car with their dad. Their brain chemistry would be forever changed.  A fire of passion and dedication ignited in Browne that day, beginning a life of sonic study and commitment to Black American Instrumental Music (A.K.A. Jazz). 

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Browne strives to investigate the unending capabilities taps have as a percussive form and contributor to the rhythmic fabric of music.  As a bandleader Browne is dedicated to enhancing the electro acoustic representation of tap dance in an ensemble context to discover how the form would sound if The Dance and The Music were never separated by divisive cultural erasure and instead were united through the years and development of modern jazz: Bebop and beyond. Browne meditates on this work with their groups Chandler Browne Trio and Chandler Browne Quintet. Their electronic project “WithanE” (a reference to  their surname, Browne with an ‘e’) takes off from the legacy left for us by the prolific Gregory Hines in the final scene of the movie Tap, an electronic taps layered rhythmic landscape centered on a potential future of The Dance.