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Ben Branch was born in 1928 in the United States. He is an entrepreneur and investor who has been involved in a variety of businesses over the years. He is the founder and CEO of Branch Capital, a private equity firm that invests in early-stage companies. He is also the founder of the Ben Branch Foundation, a philanthropic organization that supports education, health, and economic development initiatives. Ben Branch is 59 years old. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs around 160 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes. Ben Branch is not married and does not have any children. He is currently single and there is no information available about his past relationships. Ben Branch has an estimated net worth of $100 million. He has earned his wealth through his investments and business ventures. He is also a philanthropist and has donated to various causes.

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Occupation Musician
Age 59 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 8 January, 1928
Birthday 8 January
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Date of death (1987-08-27)
Died Place Chicago, Illinois
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Timeline

1987

A few months before his death, Branch appeared with his band at the 1987 Chicago Blues Festival backing Rosco Gordon.

1983

Branch was president of Doctor Branch Products Inc., founded in 1983, in Chicago, Illinois, the nation's only black-owned soft-drink manufacturing company. The company eventually signed a $355 million agreement with Kemmerer Bottling Group, bottler of several well-known soft drinks, including 7Up, to distribute the Doctor Branch Products beverages.

1982

In 1982, Branch founded the American Music Hall of Fame, a private music school in Chicago.

1969

Cannonball Adderley, in the introduction to the title track of his 1969 album Country Preacher, makes a specific mention of Branch in recognition of his work as leader of the Operation Breadbasket Orchestra and Choir.

1968

Although possibly better known as being the last person Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to moments before his assassination in 1968, Branch had been a jazz bandleader for many years.

1960

Future M.G.'s bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn was the first white member of Branch's big band, in the early 1960s.

1952

Branch recorded with King again on an early 1952 Memphis recording with the B.B. King Orchestra with, among others, Hank Crawford and Ike Turner.

1950

For much of the 1950s, Branch was the bandleader for the house band, the Largos, at Curry's Club in North Memphis, which provided a young Isaac Hayes with his first professional gigs.

1949

With his brother, Thomas, on trumpet, Branch was a member of the horn section on B.B. King's first recordings for Bullet Records in 1949. "My very first recordings were for a company out of Nashville called Bullet, the Bullet Record Transcription company," King recalls. "I had horns that very first session. I had Phineas Newborn on piano; his father played drums, and his brother, Calvin, played guitar with me. I had Tuff Green on bass, Ben Branch on tenor sax, his brother, Thomas Branch, on trumpet, and a lady trombone player."

1928

Ben F. Branch (January 8, 1928 – August 27, 1987) was an American entrepreneur, jazz tenor saxophonist, and bandleader.