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Musician

Wes Brown is a multi-instrumentalist, playing acoustic and electric bass, piano, West African atenteben flute, and percussion. He composes, arranges, and leads his own Wes Brown Quartet, as well as being a member of the Blood Drum Spirit global jazz ensemble and the Talking Drums West African Jazz Highlife ensemble. He writes poetry and sings, with the ability to scat sing exrtensively while playing bass.

He met fellow musicians David Bindman and royal hartigan at Wesleyan, forming the group Juba with David, royal, trombonist Bill Lowe and guitarist Kevin Mcneal. He graduated and studied the music of India, West African dance, singing, and drumming, African American music, among other world traditions. For many years he was a member of the Jazz faculty ensemble at Wesleyan, performing regularly with Bill Barron, Fred Simmons, Ed Blackwell, Jay Hoggard, and Bill Lowe.

Album

Music for the Exploration of Elusive Phenomena

By Julian Gerstin

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: American History; Too Happy to Sleep; After the Sleep of Lies; Spruce Street; Long Journey Home; The Almost Happy Camel; Remember and See; La Casa Violeta; Beautiful Blur; Ways to Hear Each Other; Serious Fun; All Day Every Day.

Article: Under the Radar

A Different Drummer, Part 2: Royal Hartigan

by Karl Ackermann
March 30, 2021

Drums of Life--Drums of DeathThe ruins of the Anasazi people stand undisturbed in the cliffs between the high mesas and the canyon floors of the southwest. Dating to 2500 B.C., the multi-story adobe pueblos and stone cities were the sites of the ancient indigenous peoples of North America. Archeologists have uncovered an assortment of percussion instruments ...

Article: History of Jazz

Leo Smith and New Dalta Ahkri

by Daniel Barbiero
April 7, 2020

Coming to New England: Emerson, Ives and Brown When trumpeter/composer Leo Smith returned to the United States after having spent 1969-1970 in Europe, he settled not in New York, as most jazz musicians might be expected to do, or even in Chicago, where he'd spent a fruitful several years in the 1960s. Instead, he chose to ...

Article: History of Jazz

The Creative Musicians Improvisers Forum: New Haven's AACM

by Daniel Barbiero
July 8, 2019

The late 1960s through the 1970s and '80s were difficult years for jazz and jazz-derived improvised music, but they were also years that saw musicians—by necessity—respond to these difficulties with creative solutions. With first the rise and then the commercial dominance during those years of rock music and the corresponding eclipse of jazz, creative musicians in ...

Article: Album Review

Royal Hartigan & Blood Drum Spirit: Time Changes

Read "Time Changes" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
June 14, 2019

Drummer, pianist, and composer, Royal Hartigan, first encountered bassist Wes Brown and saxophonist David Bindman at Wesleyan University. The three were instrumental in the early development of the Ghanaian-American group Talking Drums and recorded Blood Drum Spirit (Innova) in 1993 with Kevin McNeal on guitar. The ensemble's follow up, Blood Drum Spirit: Royal Hartigan Ensemble Live ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Wadada Leo Smith: Abbey Road Quartet; Spiritual Dimensions & Spirit Catcher

by Marc Medwin
June 12, 2010

Wadada Leo SmithAbbey Road QuartetTreader2009 Wadada Leo SmithSpiritual DimensionsCuneiform2009 Wadada Leo SmithSpirit CatcherNessa2009 There are few players that continue to be as ...