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Saxophonist Rob Brown Interviewed at AAJ
Alto saxophonist Rob Brown would feature highly on most people's lists of modern purveyors of reed magic. Leading New York avant-garde bassist William Parker has featured Brown for the last fifteen years, and Brown has been associated, both as sideman and leader, with other well-known modern jazz musicians including Matthew Shipp, Joe Morris and Whit Dickey. ...
Rob Brown: No More "Mr. Avant Garde"
by John Sharpe
Alto saxophonist Rob Brown would feature highly on most people's lists of modern purveyors of reed magic. Leading New York avant-garde bassist William Parker has featured Brown for the last fifteen years, and Brown has been associated, both as sideman and leader, with other well-known modern jazz musicians including Matthew Shipp, Joe Morris and Whit Dickey.
Rob Brown: Crown Trunk Root Funk
by John Sharpe
One-off assemblages can be hit or miss affairs, but so powerful was saxophonist Rob Brown's ensemble at the 2006 Vision Festival that it was deemed essential that they were brought into the studio. With his carefully controlled use of harmonics and split tones, allied to a quicksilver inventiveness, Brown is one of the ...
Rob Brown: Crown Trunk Root Funk
by Lyn Horton
The function of liner notes is to bring the listener closer to the music. They need not be very broad in scope. Some of the most straightforward liner notes are often the most useful. For they do not impose layers of unnecessary skin to peel away in order to reach their point. After all, the music ...
Rob Brown Ensemble: Crown Trunk Root Funk
by Troy Collins
After its successful premier at the 2006 Vision Festival, alto saxophonist Rob Brown took his newest ensemble into the studio to record Crown Trunk Root Funk, his first recording as a leader for AUM Fidelity. A formidable blend of funky abstraction, angular post-bop and dark impressionism, it offers an expansive view of Brown's adventurous aesthetic.
Sounds
By Rob Brown
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Sounds part I Archaeology; Sounds part II Antics; Sounds part III Astir; Stutter Step; Tibetan Folk Song; Sinew; Moment of Pause.
Corn Meal Dance
Label: AUM Fidelity
Released: 2007
Track listing: Doctor Yesterday; Tutsi Orphans; Poem For June Jordan; Soledad; Corn Meal Dance; Land Song; Prayer; Old Tears; Gilmore's Hat.
Rob Brown Trio: Sounds
by Mark Corroto
The title, Sounds, might oversimplify the concept for Rob Brown's latest trio. Or maybe it allows for the multiple possibilities. You see it is not just jazz sounds that are made here, nor is it only modern or avant-garde music. Brown is stretching the elastic of music-making, just like Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler once did. ...
Rob Brown: Sounds
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ne è passata di acqua sotto i ponti da quando Rob Brown era soltanto quel funambolico sassofonista bianco al fianco di William Parker. Il ragazzo si è fatto le ossa, ha sviluppato un linguaggio al contralto del tutto personale ed è riuscito ad affrancarsi dall’ingombrante tutela del carismatico contrabbassista. Whit Dickey, Joe Morris, Rashied Ali, Cecil ...
Rob Brown Trio: Sounds
by Troy Collins
Alto saxophonist Rob Brown has been a fixture on New York's avant-garde scene for over two decades. Working closely with Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Joe Morris and Whit Dickey, Brown has appeared on over fifty albums, and more than a dozen as a leader or co-leader. Typically working in a piano-less quartet format on ...
