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Wes Brown

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.