Brian Landrus (born September 14, 1978) is a jazz saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and educator.

[1] Landrus was born in Reno, Nevada, where he began playing professionally at the age of 13.

He earned a degree in saxophone performance at the University of Nevada, Reno.

[2] At the age of 18 he began performing on tenor and baritone saxophone with The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Coasters, The Drifters, and Martha Reeves.

[5] Landrus is an Associate Professor of Jazz Composition at Berklee College of Music[6] Main source:[8] The Boston Globe reviewer of his 2011 album Capsule wrote that the album, "which includes pianist Michael Cain (mostly on Fender Rhodes), guitar Nir Felder, bassist Matthew Parish, and drummer Rudy Royston, makes an organic fusion that ignores the boundaries that supposedly separate jazz, rock, pop, and R&B".