Pud brown

Albert Francis "Pud" Brown (born January 22, 1917 in Wilmington (Delaware) , † May 27, 1996 in Algiers , Louisiana ) was an American musician ( clarinet , saxophone ) and composer of Dixieland jazz .

Brown grew up in Shreveport , Louisiana and began playing the saxophone when he was five; He gained his first experience as a musician in the family band before touring with vaudeville troupes and working in theater orchestras in the early 1930s. In 1938 he was a member of the Phil Lavant Orchestra in Chicago, which played Dixieland Jazz. In the late 1940s, Brown took part in the recordings of Louis Armstrong and Les Brown ; under his own name he recorded as Pud Brown's Delta Kings for the small label West Craft with Jack and Charlie Teagarden , Jess Stacy and Ray Bauduc ( Jersey Bounce ). In the 1950s he played his own composition Johnson Rag , which was successful in the R&B charts, and in 1953 for Capitol Records Take the "A" Train in trio. Radio recordings from the Hangover Club San Francisco with Lee Collins and Ralph Sutton exist on Rarities from the same year . Further recordings were made during this time with Doc Cheatham , Danny Barker , Kid Ory , Teddy Buckner (1958) and Percy Humphrey ; he was also a member of Lawrence Welk's orchestra . After previously working in Los Angeles for thirty years, Brown moved to New Orleans in 1975. There he performed Clive Wilson's Original Camellia Jazz Band in the 1980s. Shortly before his death he took part in recordings with the New Orleans Jazz Wizards (1995).

Discographic notes

• Lee Collins-Ralph Sutton's Jazzola Six Vol. 1. & 2 (Rarities 31 & 32 - 1953)
• The Kid's the Greatest (1953-56) with Kid Ory
• Palm Court Strut (Jazzology, 1994)
• Pud Brown Plays Clarinet (Jazzology, 1995)

Web links

Commons : Pud Brown  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Portrait side
• Obituary in the New York Times
• Pud Brown at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Note at 78discography