Bob Brown

Bob Brown is a graduate of Northwest Missouri State University and worked at Heartland AEA 11 where he taught at the Polk County Juvenile Detention Center. He has worked full-time in the Des Moines area as a percussionist and set drummer since the early ‘80s with such groups as the Jay Alcorn Quartet, the Cavaliers, and Mr. Moto.

For the past 2 decades Bob has performed with trumpeter Scott Davis, and since 2016 has enjoyed providing a New Orleans jazz/rock feel with the Nola Jazz Band.  Bob drumming style is a perfect for the NOLA Jazz Band providing parts of his jazz, rock, pop, and R&B influences all into an amazing musical gumbo that drives the group!