Garnett Brown
Appearance
Garnett Brown | |
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Born | Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. | January 31, 1936
Genres | Jazz |
Occupation(s) | Trombonist |
Instrument | Trombone |
Years active | 1965-present |
Garnett Brown (born January 31, 1936) is a jazz trombonist who has worked with The Crusaders, Herbie Hancock, Lionel Hampton, and others.
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, he graduated from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and later studied film scoring and electronic music at UCLA.[1] In 1974 he won the Down Beat Reader's poll for trombonist,[2] and appears on the classic 1976 recording Bobby Bland and B.B. King Together Again...Live.
Married to Anna Brown with two children Ariana Brown and Miranda Brown-Muir
He did some work in film and television composition due to his training in the field. In 1989 he was the conductor and orchestrator for Harlem Nights.[3]
Discography
As sideman
- 1962: Drumfusion - Chico Hamilton
- 1964: Nirvana - Charles Lloyd
- 1965: Slightly Latin - Roland Kirk
- 1965 Hold On, I'm Coming - Art Blakey
- 1965: Honeybuns - Duke Pearson
- 1966: Heavy!!! - Booker Ervin
- 1966: Flute By-Laws - Hubert Laws
- 1967: Lush Life - Lou Donaldson
- 1967: The Return of the Prodigal Son - Stanley Turrentine
- 1967: Introducing Duke Pearson's Big Band - Duke Pearson
- 1967: It's All Right! - Teddy Edwards
- 1968: Easterly Winds - Jack Wilson
- 1968: Manhattan Fever - Frank Foster
- 1968: Now Hear This - Duke Pearson
- 1968: Plug Me In - Eddie Harris
- 1968: Goodies - George Benson
- 1969: Crying Song - Hubert Laws
- 1969: The Prisoner - Herbie Hancock
- 1970: MCMLXX - Ray Bryant - guest on 1 track
- 1970: Music Inc.- Charles Tolliver
- 1970: 3 Shades of Blue - Johnny Hodges
- 1970: Houston Express - Houston Person
- 1970: Louis Armstrong and His Friends − Louis Armstrong
- 1971: My Way - Gene Ammons
- 1971: Plastic Dreams - Modern Jazz Quartet
- 1971: Blues in Orbit - Gil Evans
- 1971: What's Going On - Johnny "Hammond" Smith
- 1972: The London Muddy Waters Sessions - Muddy Waters
- 1972: Blue Moses - Randy Weston
- 1972: Joy of Cookin' - Joe Thomas
- 1972: Soul Is... Pretty Purdie - Bernard Purdie
- 1972: Time & Love - Jackie and Roy
- 1972: Free - Airto Moreira
- 1972: Sweet Revival - Ronnie Foster
- 1972: Morning Star - Hubert Laws
- 1973: I Want a Country Man - Dakota Staton
- 1973: The Cisco Kid - Reuben Wilson
- 1973: Night Glider- Groove Holmes
- 1973: Part of the Search - Yusef Lateef
- 1973: Charles III - Charles Earland
- 1973: Giant Box - Don Sebesky
- 1973: Sassy Soul Strut - Lou Donaldson
- 1973: Today's Man - Charles McPherson
- 1974: The Almoravid - Joe Chambers
- 1974: 10 Years Hence - Yusef Lateef
- 1974: The Fourth Dimension - Jack McDuff
- 1974: Big Bad Bo - Bo Diddley
- 1974: Until It's Time for You to Go - Rusty Bryant
- 1974: Another Beginning - Les McCann
- 1974: Crosswinds - Billy Cobham
- 1974: Journey – Arif Mardin (Atlantic)
- 1975: Man-Child - Herbie Hancock
- 1975: Brass Fever - Brass Fever
- 1975: Impact - Charles Tolliver
- 1975: Six Million Dollar Man - Richard "Groove" Holmes
- 1976: Time Is Running Out - Brass Fever
- 1976: How Can You Live Like That? - Eddie Harris
- 1976: Bobby Bland and B.B. King Together Again...Live
- 1976: Silver 'n Wood - Horace Silver
- 1980: Night Song - Ahmad Jamal
- 1981: Lomelin - Gerald Wilson Orchestra of the 80's (Discovery)
- 1982: Jessica - Gerald Wilson's Orchestra of the 80's (Trend)
- 1984: Calafia - Gerald Wilson's Orchestra of the 80's (Trend)
- 1974 Continental American - Peter Allen
References
Categories:
- 1936 births
- Living people
- Musicians from Memphis, Tennessee
- American jazz trombonists
- Male trombonists
- University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff alumni
- Jazz musicians from Tennessee
- 21st-century trombonists
- 21st-century American male musicians
- Male jazz musicians
- The Capp-Pierce Juggernaut members
- Brass Fever members