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Instrument: Piano
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Vernell Brown Jr.
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BIO Vernell Brown Jr is a virtuoso jazz pianist and multifaceted composer known for sparkling compositions and creative performances. He began as a child prodigy, playing at age 4. By his teens, Brown was discovered and signed with A&M Records, by legendary recording executive Jerry Moss. Over the years, Brown has collaborated with a litany of jazz greats: Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Sample, Marcus Miller, Ernie Andrews, Stix Hooper, Herb Alpert, Will Jennings and more. Recently, he has recorded and toured extensively with Ronnie Laws, and Gladys Knight, capping a career that has taken him from his birthplace in Los Angeles, across the United States, Europe and Asia, performing at the most prestigious venues worldwide. He's currently (2012) touring with Kenny Garrett, and has performed in France, Vienna, Norway, Italy, London & Israel Vernell Brown Jr's latest CD, "World Peace, New World" is scheduled for release November, 2012
Sounds From The Ancestors
Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: It's Time To Come Home; Hargrove; When the Days Were Different; For Art's Sake; What Was That?; Soldiers of the Field/Soldats des Champs; Sounds from the Ancestors; It's Time To Come Home (original).
Kenny Garrett: Sounds From The Ancestors
by Ian Patterson
On Sounds from the Ancestors, Kenny Garrett's fifth album for Mack Avenue and his first since Do You Dance! (Mack Avenue 2016), the former saxophonist for both Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and Miles Davis, turns to the past for inspiration. From the Motown and gospel music he was weaned on as a youth growing up in ...
Jazz Monsters Invade Las Vegas
Jazz monsters spotted at the Freakin' Frog... For all the hype about Vegas headliners, the neon names everyone knows, the town is truly overrun with less-well known, fabulous players and voices most often seen as tuxedoed sidemen and slinky backup singers. Real monsters; many renowned worldwide for musical skills you seldom see shining, upstage in the ...
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