Garnett Brown
Garnett Brown Jr. (born January 31, 1936 in Memphis , Tennessee ) is an American trombonist and composer .
Life
Garnett Brown studied piano and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff ; joined later in film dramaturgy and electronic music at UCLA from. He began his musical career in a rhythm and blues record company, in 1962 he played with Chico Hamilton , in 1964 he appeared with George Russell in Sweden. He then taught public schools in New York and took part in the 1968 Berkeley Jazz Festival with the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Big Band ; then he played in the sextet of Herbie Hancock and worked on his albums Man-Child and Sunlight . In 1974 he won the Down Beat Reader's Poll for best trombonist and in 1976 he took part in a live concert by Bobby Bland and BB King ( Together Again… Live ). He also played with The Crusaders ( Street Life , 1979) and was on recordings with Billy Cobham ( Cosswinds , 1974), Lou Donaldson , Roland Kirk , Lionel Hampton , Teddy Edwards , Booker Ervin , Gil Evans ( Blues in Orbit , 1969 ), Dizzy Gillespie , Eddie Harris , Gene Harris , Hubert Laws , Duke Pearson , Horace Silver , McCoy Tyner, and Joe Thomas . In later years, Brown worked as a composer for film and television. In 1989 he directed the film orchestra for the film Harlem Nights . In 1995 he founded the formation BoneSoir with friends George Bohanon , Maurice Spears and Thurman Green . In 1996 he played in the big band of Buddy Collette .
Discographic notes
- Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra : All My Yesterdays: The Debut 1966 Recordings at the Village Vanguard (Resonance, ed. 2016)
- Booker Ervin: Heavy! (OJC, 1966)
- Duke Pearson: Honeybuns (Koch, 1965)
- George Russell: The Outer View (OJC, 1962)
literature
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler: Reclams Jazzführer (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 10185). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-15-010185-9 .
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
- Bielefeld catalog jazz. 2001.
Web links
- Works by Garnett Brown in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual proof
- ↑ 1974 Down Beat Readers Poll ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. downbeat.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brown, Garnett |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brown, Garnett junior (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz and fusion musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Memphis (Tennessee) |