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Ray Brown was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and had piano lessons from the age of eight. After noticing how many pianists attended his high school, he thought of taking up the trombone, but was unable to afford one. With a vacancy in the high school jazz orchestra, he took up the double bass. A major early influence on Brown's bass playing was the bassist in the Duke Ellington band, Jimmy Blanton. As a young man Ray Brown became steadily more well known in the Pittsburgh jazz scene, with his first experiences playing in bands with the Jimmy Hinsley Sextet and the Snookum Russel band. After graduating from high school, hearing stories about the burgeoning jazz scene on 52nd Street, in New York City, he bought a one way ticket to New York. Arriving in New York at the age of twenty, he met up with Hank Jones, with whom he had previously worked, and was introduced to Dizzy Gillespie, who was looking for a bass player
The Oscar Peterson Trio at Baker's Keyboard Lounge
Label: Verve Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Autumn Leaves; Django; Confirmation; Whisper Not; Billy Boy; The Touch Of Your Lips; Ill
Wind; Chicago; I Love You; Blues For Big Scotia; Dancing On The Ceiling; Politics & Poker;
Where Do I Go From Here?; I Didn't Know What Time It Was; Liza; Yesterdays; Softly As In A
Morn ing Sunrise; S'posin; I Remember Clifford; Let There Be Love; Swamp Fire; Blues For Big
Scotia; Satin Doll; Woody n' You; My Funny Valentine; Scrapple From The Apple; Billy
Boy/When The Saints Go Marching In.
Remembering Ray Brown and Lou Donaldson on their centennial
by Larry Slater
The bassist Ray Brown had one of the most prolific and successful careers in jazz. He did it all, playing in the 40s with Charlie Parker, Art Tatum and Dizzy Gillespie, before becoming a founding member of the early Modern Jazz Quartet. He was a member of Oscar Peterson's trio for 14 years as well as ...
Too Cool For Words
by Marshall Bowden
This article first appeared on All About Jazz in August 2002. “Something cool...I'd like to order something cool" says the dame in the smoky, slightly seedy bar that is something out of a Raymond Chandler story. The kind of place where maybe there could be trouble at any moment; where maybe a couple of ...
Benny Green: Renovation
by Pierre Giroux
There are pianists who play solo because they have something to prove, and then there are pianists like Benny Green, who have nothing to prove and regard the absence of a rhythm section as an invitation. On Renovation, his first live solo recording, Green seems to be enjoying himself. Most of these 13 performances were recorded ...
Ursa Major at Miner Auditorium
by Steven Roby
Christian McBride's Ursa Major Miner Auditorium San Francisco, CA September 13, 2026 Christian McBride stood toward the rear of the Miner Auditorium stage Sunday night, directing traffic from behind Nicole Glover and Ely Perlman. Even when he switched from upright to electric bass and began one of his fleet, muscular solos, he ...
Milcho Leviev: Letter To America
by Nenad Georgievski
Milcho Leviev's Letter to America (reissued on vinyl from his final 2015 solo piano studio recording, on Perfect Records, originally titled Quiet March) distills a lifetime of defiance, cinematic grandeur, and cross-cultural mastery into its rawest, most intimate essence. Comprising a selection of movie soundtrack themes written over the span of 40 years, the album captures the ...
Tom Burns: From Record Collector to Capri Records Label Owner
by Mike Jones
Throwing back to our very first episode with Capri Records label owner, Tom Burns! For over 40 years, Tom has been producing jazz records and running his label. He has known and worked with some of the greats like Ray Brown,, Bud Shank, Jeff Hamilton, John Clayton and so many more. Tom talked with host, Mike ...
Enoch Smith Jr.: This Is What Love Does
by D.W. Long
When the medium artists use is typically wordless, how do they tell their story? Pianist Enoch Smith Jr.. has confronted this question, turned it over, and not only accepted the challenge, but mastered it. In a follow-up to The Book of Enoch Vol. 1 (Misfitme Music, 2025), Smith continues to joyfully tell his tale through This ...
Alex Frank: Jeff Goldblum's Bassist on Swing and the Ray Brown Tradition
by Mike Jones
Alex Frank grew up in the room while the music was being made. The son of an LA film composer, he was a kid at recording sessions who traded the clarinet for an upright the moment he heard Ray Brown . Now he's the musical director of Jeff Goldblum's jazz band and one of the most ...
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