Tyrone Brown
Tyrone Brown (born February 1, 1940 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American jazz bassist and composer.
Life
Brown studied orchestration and modern harmony at the Berklee School of Music in Boston and was a student of the Philadelphia Orchestra's first cellist , Michael Shahan . He recorded about 125 albums as a sideman, including with Max Roach , Odean Pope , Grover Washington Jr. , Pat Martino , Bobby Zankel , Rachelle Ferrell , Cecil Bridgewater and Dave Burrell .
With a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts , he produced a video in 1983 about the performance of his own original composition. In 1993 and 1994 he received the Jazz Philadelphia Magazine Readers Award for Best Bassist of the Year.
In 1996 he gave a solo concert at the 25th Moers Festival . In 1999 he performed Duke and Mercer Ellington's Suite For The Three Black Kings with the Philadelphia Orchestra under André Raphael Smith . Since 2002 he has worked with the choreographer Germaine Ingram on several dance and music projects.
Brown also directs the Tyrone Brown String Sextet , with which he toured and recorded two albums ( Song of the Sun and Emerald Valley ). In order University of Rochester originated Suite for John A. Williams , which he recorded on CD and composed of 2005. Brown has also given master classes in Barcelona and Jerusalem and improvisational symposia at Brigham Young University , Illinois State University and Temple University .
Discography
- Out of the Box , 1997
- Song of the Sun with John Blake , Nina Cottman , William Wilson , Melissa Ortega , 1999
- Suite for John A. Williams with Nina Cottman, Ronald Lipscomb , Adam Williams , Bobby Zankel , 2005
- Between Midnight and Dawn with John Blake, Nina Cottman, Bill Jones , Ronald Lipscomb, Jimmy Miller , Duke Wilson , 2005
- Emerald Valley , 2005
- Moon of the Falling Leaves , 2008, with Randy Sutin, John Blake, Melissa Locati, Beth Dwzil, Michael Ireland, Ron Lipscomb, Craig McIver, Jim Miller, William "Duke" Wilson, Daoud Shaw , Pheralyn Dove
Web links
- Works by and about Tyrone Brown in the catalog of the German National Library
- Tyrone Brown on dreamboxmedia.com
- Tyrone Brown at Allmusic (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Brown, Tyrone |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz bassist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, United States |