Paul Brown (bassist)

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Paul Brown

Paul H. "PB" Brown (born March 6, 1934 in Baltimore ; † May 6, 2016 ) was an American jazz musician ( double bass ), impresario and music teacher who was active in the Hartford area .

Live and act

Brown first played the trumpet and toured with rhythm and blues musician Lloyd Price ; he was also employed as a temporary player in the bands of Count Basie and Duke Ellington . After switching to the double bass, he toured the Baltimore area with Flink Johnson. His friendship with Jackie McLean brought him to Hartford in the 1960s. In 1967, Brown founded the Monday Night Jazz series of events , which the Library of Congress called the oldest and longest-running jazz festival in the United States. He also founded the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz in 1992 and was one of the co-founders of the Artists Collective in 1970 ; he also organized jazz concerts and educational jazz programs in public schools. For almost twenty years he taught at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts and received a number of awards for his music educational work, such as the JC Penny 'Golden Rule Award (2001), the New England Jazz Alliance Unsung Heroes Award (2003), the Heartbeat Ensemble Street Performance Award and the Latter Rain Christian Fellowship Appreciation Award (2006) and the 2007 Greater Hartford Festival Of Jazz Community Award .

As a bass player, Brown played a. a. with jazz greats such as Dexter Gordon , Junior Cook , Bill Hardman ( Politely , 1981), Al Haig and Barry Harris , and he has also appeared as an accompanist for Frank Sinatra , Sarah Vaughan , Nina Simone and Betty Carter . In the field of jazz he was involved in around 15 recording sessions between 1981 and 1998. a. with Steve Turre , Mark Elf , Walter Bishop junior , Anthony Braxton ( 9 Standards (Quartet) 1993 ), Lisle Atkinson and Lloyd Chisholm . In 1996 he played the album Speak Low with his quartet ; In 1998, the album Meets the Three Tenors followed , with George Coleman , John Stubblefield and Houston Person as guest musicians.

The bassist should not be confused with the guitarist and smooth jazz musician of the same name.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcement of death
  2. ↑ Obituary at Legacy.com
  3. ↑ Jazz at the Atheneum Series of the Hartford Jazz Society ( Memento of the original from March 7, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hartfordjazzsociety.com
  4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed May 7, 2016)
  5. ↑ Portrait of Paul Brown (guitarist)
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brown, Paul H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 2016