Scoville Brown

Scoville Toby Brown (second from right) with Ted Kelly, Kenny Kersey , Benny Fonville (from left) and Buck Clayton (right) performing at Cafe Society in New York. Photo: William P. Gottlieb (1947)

Scoville "Toby" Brown or Browne (* 13. October 1915 in Chicago , Illinois ; † 4. October 1994 in Atlanta ) was an American jazz - clarinetist and alto saxophonist of the swing and Dixieland jazz .

Live and act

Scoville Brown began his career in the late 1920s with Junie Cobb's Band and the Midnight Ramblers in Chicago ; In 1931/32 he played the saxophone and clarinet with the drummer and band leader Fred Avendorph . From 1933 to 1935 he worked for Louis Armstrong ; In the mid-1930s with Jesse Stone , Jack Butler , Claude Hopkins and accompanied the singer Blanche Calloway . At the end of the decade he was studying at the Chicago College of Music . In the 1940s, Browne starred with Slim Gaillard , Fats Waller , Buddy Johnson , Hot Lips Page, and in the Eddie Heywood trio ; then was drafted into the US Army in World War II.

After the war, Brown worked again with Claude Hopkins, in Teddy Wilson's radio show on CBS and with Buck Clayton , to be heard in titles such as "Dawn Dance" or "Basies Morning Bluesicals" in 1946, and in the late 1940s with Lucky Millinder . Between 1948 and 1952 he led his own band; from 1952 to 1955 he played in Dixieland bands, such as the Stuyvesant Casino , and studied classical music. In 1956/57 he played with Lionel Hampton , with whom he toured Europe and the Middle East, with Muggsy Spanier in the late 1950s . Brown performed again with Claude Hopkins in the 1960s and early 1970s, and directed the East Coast Jazz Band in the 1980s . Despite his numerous activities as a leader of his own formations, he did not record any records under his own name.

Lexical entries

• Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler: Reclams Jazzführer (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 10185/10196). Reclam, Stuttgart 1970, ISBN 3-15-010185-9 .
• John Jörgensen, Erik Wiedemann : Jazz Lexicon . Munich: Mosaic, 1967.
• Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .

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1. ↑ See J. Jörgensen / E. Wiedemann, Reclams Jazzführer , All Music Guide and NCPR birthday list ( memento of the original from August 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Divergent sources such as thedeadrockstarsclub.com assume a date of birth in 1909. The spelling of names is not very clear; possibly as a careless mistake Eugene Chadbourne writes it in the Allmusic article once under the heading Brown and then Browne , at Jörgensen / Wiedemann and in the English Wikipedia it is listed under Browne . Here he is accepted as Brown after Feather & Gitler and Bohländer . 
2. ↑ According to Feather / Gitler, he died in New York in 1995.

Web links

• Scoville Brown on Allmusic (English)