Patti Bown

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Patricia Bown , called Patti Bown (born July 26, 1931 in Seattle , Washington , † March 21, 2008 in Media , Pennsylvania ), was an American pianist of modern jazz . She played in the Quincy Jones orchestra .

Live and act

Patti Bown studied piano at Seattle University and played in local orchestras in the late 1940s. From 1956 she appeared as a soloist in New York and participated in sessions with Billy Eckstine and Jimmy Rushing . In 1958 came the only album under his own name, "Patti Bown Plays Big Piano" for Columbia Records . The following year she had a short-lived trio that included Ed Shaughnessy . From the end of 1959 she played in the Quincy Jones Big Band , heard as a soloist in the blues "After Hours" (1963). and went on tour with this to Europe. There she also played in Bill Coleman's band in Paris. On her return to the United States, she worked as a studio musician and took part in the recording of artists such as Gene Ammons , Oliver Nelson , Cal Massey , Duke Ellington , Rahsaan Roland Kirk , George Russell and Harry Sweets Edison . She can also be heard on recordings by soul musicians such as Aretha Franklin and James Brown . Bown was also musical director of Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughan's bands . She later worked as a pianist in the Broadway orchestras until the 1970s , composing for film and television and was thus able to continue to support her family in New York and still earn a living with music.

According to John S. Wilson, Bown was "a strong, exuberant and independent interpreter". For the last 37 years of her life, she lived in Greenwich Village , New York , where she performed regularly at the Village Gate nightclub . In 2006 she received the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement , and the following year she performed at a Gala in her honor organized by the Jazz Foundation of America (which she had supported in the last years of her life).

Selection discography

  • Gene Ammons: Up Tight! ( Prestige Records , 1961); The Gene Ammons Story: Gentle Jug (Prestige, 1961-62); You'd Be So Nice To Come Home (1962)
  • Bill Coleman Septet: Jazz in Paris - Bill Coleman: From Boogie to Funk (Emarcy, 1960); Nothin 'But The Truth (1959); Have Blues (1960); We'll Play 'Em (1960)
  • Harry Sweets Edison: Basin Street East (Emarcy, 1961)
  • Etta Jones: Lonely and Blue (OJC, 1962)
  • Quincy Jones: Free and Easy (Ancha, 1960); The Quintessence ( Impulse! Records , 1961); Strike Up The Band (Mercury Records, 1961-64)
  • Cal Massey Sextet: Blues to Coltrane (Candid, 1961); Father and Son (1961)

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Patti Bown can also be heard in the 1961 track Dear Old Stockholm with a short solo .
personal data
SURNAME Bown, Patti
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bown, Patricia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American modern jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle , Washington
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 2008
Place of death Media (Pennsylvania)