BRIAN BROWN

Brian Ernest Austin Brown OAM (29 December 1933 – 28 January 2013) was born in Melbourne, Australia. He performed as a soloist and with his own ensembles since the mid-1950s throughout Australia and in Scandinavia, US, Japan, UK, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Brunei and Germany. He played only original music. A self-taught player who emerged in the '50s as a leading figure in Australia and remained prominent through the '80s. According to Allmusic "Brown was one of first Australian musicians to develop a reputation for highly personal, individualistic style that was intense, lyrical and not simple imitation of an American great." 

In early 1956 Brown returned to Melbourne from Europe and formed a new Hard Bop band with like-minded players - drummer Stewie Speer, trumpeter Keith Hounslow, schoolboy pianist Dave Martin and bassist Barry Buckley. The Brian Brown Quintet were regulars at Horst Liepolt's influential Jazz Centre 44 in St Kilda, which operated from 1955 to 1960. The band were enthusiastic ambassadors for bop, introducing Melburnians to a musical style which was still largely unheard in Australia.

Brown made many albums over his lifetime heading various groups. He toured Europe with his Australian Jazz Ensemble in 1978, and also led groups doing experimental and original classical pieces from '80 - '86. He founded the Improvisation Studies course at the Victorian College of the Arts where he taught from 1978 until his retirement in 1998. He appeared at the World Saxophone Congress in Tokyo in 1988, with Tony Gould, and in 1993 was awarded the Order of Australia for services to the performing arts as a Jazz performer, educator and composer. He died in 2013.

EPs

'Australian Jazz' 1958 Score

ALBUMS

'Carlton Streets' 1975 44 Records

'Brian Brown Quintet 1958' 1977 44 Records

'Upward' 1977

'Bells Make Me Sing' 1979 AIJA
'Wildflowers' 1984 Move
'The Planets' 1985 Larrikin
'Winged Messenger' 1987
'Spirit of the Rainbow' 1990 Move
'Flight' 1997
'Last day on Earth' 1998
'Jupiter Moon' 2001
'Images' 2003
'Time will tell' 2004
'Circles' 2004
'Midnight' 2004
'Last Dance' 2005
'Inner Spirit' 2005
'Inner Light' 2005
'Mystic Sky' 2006
'Long Ago' 2006
'Another Time' 2006
'Texture of Light' 2006
'Seasons' 2007
'Magic' 2007
'Cosmic Light' 2007
'Contact' 2007
'Venus Moon' 2007
'Bells in the Night' 2007

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Brown_(musician)