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Ray Brown Trio

Ella Fitzgerald, Gregory Porter, Olivia Van Goor, Leslie Odom Jr. and More!

by Jua Howard
December 14, 2025

Happy Holidays! It's time for another episode of the “First Instrument Jazz Show"! I've got a lot of holiday cheer to share with new music from April Varner, Wycliffe Gordon, Olivia Van Goor,Christian Wiggs; and a lot of other timeless holiday music including from Ella Fitzgerald, Kevin Mahogany, Laila Biali, Joe Williams, Natalie Cole, Leslie Odom ...

Bassics. The Best Of Ray Brown Trio. 1977-2000

By Ray Brown Trio

Label: Concord Jazz
Released: 2006
Track listing: Sister Sadie; Blue Bossa; Exactly Like You; Mistreated But Undefeated Blues (Alternate Take); Have You Met Miss Jones?; That's All; Rio; Summertime; Buhaina Buhaina; The Real Blues; Bye Bye Blackbird; Gumbo Hump; Phineas Can Be; Don't Get Sassy; Seven Steps To Heaven; Port Of Rico; You're My Everything; Freddie Freeloader; It's Only A Paper Moon; Cherokee; Caravan; Goodbye; I Want To Be Happy; Lined With A Groove;

Live From New York To Tokyo

By Ray Brown Trio

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Have You Met Miss Jones? - 4:20 2. Meditation - 6:05 3. Street of Dreams - 5:18 4. Lady Be Good - 6:23 5. That's All - 6:10 6. Love Me Tender - 6:53 7. How Could You Do a Thing Like This to Me? - 5:06 8. Captain Bill - 4:07 9. Introductory Announcement - 0:36 10. F.S.R. (For Sonny Rollins) - 5:27 11. Put Your Little Foot Right Out - 6:00 12. Rio - 7:02 13. If I Loved You - 3:49 14. Introductory Announcement - 0:22 15. Summertime - 7:15 16. Days of Wine and Roses - 6:53 17. Introductory Announcement - 0:19 18. A Night in Tunisia - 6:24 19. Bam Bam Bam - 4:20

Ray Brown Trio: Walk On

by Ollie Bivens
August 25, 2003

Recorded in January 2000, Walk On was the latest release by bassist Ray Brown before his passing in July 2002. Maynard Ferguson once remarked that he was attracted to jazz because jazz musicians always seemed to enjoy what they were playing. The sense of joy is present throughout Walk On. “America the Beautiful” begins with Brown ...

Ray Brown Trio: Live From New York To Tokyo

by C. Michael Bailey
May 8, 2003

This welcome historical twofer is comprised of two very fine trio recordings, each with Ray Brown and Gene Harris and each using a different drummer. The Red Hot Ray Brown Trio (Concord, 1987) employed Mickey Roker and was recorded at the Blue Note in New York City, November-December 1985. Bam, Bam, Bam (Concord, ...

Some of My Best Friends Are...Guitarists

By Ray Brown Trio

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Squeeze Me; I Want to Be Happy; Heartstrings; Blues for Ray; Fly Me to the Moon; The Song Is You; Little Darlin'; Blues for Junior; Tangerine; My Funny Valentine; Blues for Wes; Soulful Spirit

Ray Brown Trio: Some of My Best Friends Are...Guitarists

by Dave Nathan
June 4, 2002

For the fifth in his Some of My Best Friends Are... series, master bassist Ray Brown has chosen guitar players as his playing companions. Joining Brown and his trio are six select string men running the gamut of styles and inclination from the straight ahead jazz of veteran Herb Ellis through the cool, blues inflected strumming ...

Live At Starbucks

By Ray Brown Trio

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Up There; When I Fall In Love; Brown Bossa; Our Delight; Lament; Mainstem; Love You Madly; Caravan; This House Is Empty Now/I Should Care; Lester Leaps In; Starbucks Blues.

Ray Brown Trio: Live At Starbucks

by Mark Corroto
March 1, 2001

Perhaps one of the reasons for the decline in jazz as a popular music is that the listening experience should be live. Its life force rarely transfers itself through the recording process. In the studio, where actions are inscribed in permanence, artists require take after take to “make it perfect.” But jazz isn’t about perfect, or ...