Ted Brown (saxophonist)

Ted Brown (actually Theodore George Brown , * 1. December 1927 in Rochester , New York ) is an American jazz - tenor saxophonist .

Brown first learned the banjo, violin, clarinet and tenor saxophone. In 1942 his family moved to Southern California, where his father worked as a pilot in the Navy. After high school, in the mid-1940s, he joined the army and was stationed in Virginia, where he often went to the jazz clubs on 52nd Street . Brown lived in Hollywood in 1947/48 . From 1948 to 1955 Brown learned and worked with Lennie Tristano in New York, among others together with Lee Konitz . In early 1956 first participation in a recording (together with other Tristano students), Ronnie Balls All About Ronnie ( Savoy Records , 1956). Played with Warne Marsh and Art Pepper in Hollywood in 1956/57 ; then again as a freelance musician in New York.
At the end of the 1980s he tried a comeback with the record Free Spirit ( Criss Cross Jazz ) in the style of Lester Young , which disappointed, however. At the end of the 1990s he worked again with Lee Konitz.

Discographic notes

• Ted Brown Sextet: Free Wheeling ( Vanguard Records , 1956)
• Kirk Knuffke and Ted Brown: Pound Cake (SteepleChase, 2012)

As an accompanying musician

• Lee Konitz: Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre ( Verve Records , 1959)
• Warne Marsh: An Unsung Cat - The Life and Music of Warne Marsh , 1945-87 ( Storyville Records , 2001); published as a supplement to the book of the same name by Safford Chamberlain, Scarecrow Press 2000
• Lee Konitz: Sound Of Surprise ( RCA Victor , 1999) with John Abercrombie

literature

• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
• Concert announcement: The Ted Brown Quintet. In: AmJazzIn - The American Jazz Institute Newsletter. Vol. 12. Summer 2004, p. 2 (PDF file; 0.7 MB)
• Theodore George Brown at allaboutjazz.com

Web links

• Works by Ted Brown in the catalog of the German National Library