Cameron Brown

Jazz bassist, composer and educator Cameron Brown began his career in the mid-sixties, recording in Europe with George Russell and Don Cherry. These two wonderful musicians remain life-long influences and inspirations.

Mr. Brown anchored some of the most important groups of the seventies, eighties and nineties, beginning in 1975. Sheila Jordan, Roswell Rudd, Archie Shepp and Beaver Harris were his mentors and bandleaders then. He has enjoyed special relationships with master drummers: Art Blakey, Dannie Richmond, Philly Joe Jones, Edward Blackwell, Idris Muhammad and Joe Chambers, as well as Mr. Harris.

The Don Pullen/George Adams Quartet, featuring Dannie Richmond, developed into an intense and rewarding partnership which lasted nearly ten years. In addition to this quartet, Beaver Harris's 360 Degree Music Experience, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, the Sextet and Big Bands of George Russell, and various groups led be Mr. Shepp, Mr. Cherry, Mr. Rudd and Mr. Richmond, Mr. Brown has performed and/or recorded with Donald Byrd, Booker Ervin, Ted Curson, Lee Konitz, Chet Baker, Terumasa Hino, Betty Carter and the John Hicks Trio, Houston Person, Etta Jones and Jane Ira Bloom.

He's helped young people around the world to nurture their interest in and passion for jazz from North Carolina to Norway, from Helsinki to New York, to Hong Kong and Taiwan. He is on the faculty of the New School University and has taught at the summer workshop near Venice, Italy co-sponsored by the Manhattan School of Music.

At present, in addition to freelance work, Mr. Brown performs and/or records with Joe Lovano, Sheila Jordan, Archie Shepp, Dave Ballou, Dewey Redman, Lou Donaldson, Marc Copland, Jim McNeely, Steve Slagle, George Cables, Joe Locke, Salvatore Bonafede, Tony Malaby and Phil Markowitz as well as his own ensemble, Cameron Brown and the Hear and Now. He has appeared on more than 80 recordings.

His first recording as a leader, after nearly 40 years of performing, is with his group The Hear and Now and is entitled Here and How! on the OmniTone record label.

Angela Verbrugge: Somewhere

Read "Somewhere" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
November 27, 2024

Based in Victoria, jny: British Columbia, Angela Verbrugge keeps a busy schedule as a singer, touring in Canada and farther afield. In addition to performing, she writes songs--jazz songs, new standards--with lyrics that are engagingly personal and funny, containing the occasional acerbic twist. As a lyricist, she often speaks to the quotidian. Her texts are a perfect match for pianist Ray Gallon's boppish compositions. On “Enough's Enough" (Love for Connoisseurs, Gut String Records, 2022), she takes a sloppy lover to ...

Liner Notes

Angela Verbrugge: Somewhere

by Michael Steinman
April 15, 2024

The proper response to Beauty is an awed admiring silence. So these liner notes should be one word in a large font: LISTEN. But Angela asked me to add a few hundred keystrokes to the project, so here we are. Incidentally, I have chosen to focus on Angela in the midst of the most superb musicians and arrangements. I hope they will forgive me! Angela Verbrugge is a great subversive. Her work is so quietly insinuating that listeners ...

Album Review

David Janeway: Distant Voices

Read "Distant Voices" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 16, 2021

In 2017 pianist David Janeway offered his Secret Passages, a trio outing featuring bassist Frank Tate and drummer Chuck Zeuren. He proves, in 2021, that he can change partners without losing an ounce of swing or even a shot glass of verve. It is Cameron Brown on bass this time out, with Billy Hart sitting in the drum chair. Both are serious, elevate-the-music guys, while Janeway continues with his sprightly cerebralism and crystalline-touch way of making music. Distant ...

Album Review

Lena Bloch & Feathery: Rose Of Lifta

Read "Rose Of Lifta" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
September 28, 2021

Saxophonist Lena Bloch knows something about the pain of separation from one's homeland. Born in Russia, she emigrated to Israel in 1990, then to Europe and, finally, in 2008, to the United States, setting up shop in New York City's fertile jazz ground. In 2014, Feathery, (Thirteen Note Records), the album and her quartet of that name, came into being. The group's second album, Heart Knows (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2007), cemented her distinctive horn-and-rhythm-section approach, with bassist ...

Album Review

Jeff Pearring/Pearring Sound: Socially Distanced Duos

Read "Socially Distanced Duos" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
August 5, 2021

Jeff Pearring's background in jazz, classical, reggae and other genres has informed his creative process in ways that are not always apparent. That turns out to be a good thing as his ability to encapsulate influences without genuflecting is part of his music's appeal. The alto saxophonist, a Brooklyn-based Colorado native, is a Connie Crothers protégé with a similarly independent mindset. Billed as “Pearring Sound," the saxophonist surrounds himself with a rotation of players varying on three previous, self-produced albums, ...

Album Review

Lena Bloch: Heart Knows

Read "Heart Knows" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
January 2, 2018

Tenor saxophonist Lena Bloch has a cool, cerebral style and a definite and captivating lyricism. Her second release Heart Knows demonstrates this quite well. In addition, Bloch showcases her inventive compositional skills as she contributes four intriguing originals to the album. One of Bloch's mentors, multi-reed player Yusef Lateef inspired the poetic and multilayered “Lateef Suite" that opens with a contemplative duet with pianist Russ Lossing. Bloch's intelligent and introspective saxophone “monologue" flows languidly over the darkly percolating ...

Album Review

Lena Bloch: Heart Knows

Read "Heart Knows" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
November 7, 2017

Sostituendo la chitarra di Dave Miller col pianoforte di Russ Lossing, Lena Bloch dà vita al suo secondo album, a tre anni da Feathery, che oggi dà il nome al suo stesso quartetto. Di quel lavoro, che l'aveva rivelata come una tenorista di bella presenza sonora, soprattutto ottima esponente di un jazz di mezzo molto ben strutturato, compositivamente sofisticato, questo nuovo capitolo, inciso in piena estate 2017, conferma ogni risultanza, compresa una sostanziale volontà di non tradire certi modelli, in ...

Recording

Vocalist/Composer/Arranger Kristen Lee Sergeant New Release February 15 - Smolder - With Jeb Patton, Cameron Brown, Ted Nash And More!

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations
January 19, 2019

Vocalist/Composer/Arranger Kristen Lee Sergeant—New Release February 15—Smolder with Jeb Patton, Cameron Brown, Ted Nash and more! Kristen Lee Sergeant is a vocalist with effervescent energy, musical intensity and dramatic flair. Her debut record, Inside Out, was a Downbeat Editor's Pick. Smolder is a story of fire—fully ablaze or newly extinguished, and is set to further ignite her international career. Smolder spans '80s pop, bold interpretations of standards, and breathtaking originals—all bound together with a theme of elemental flame. Kristen is ...
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Performance / Tour

Mike Baggetta Trio with Cameron Brown, Jeff Hirshfield on the 4th of July!

Source: Michael Ricci
July 3, 2010

If you're looking for some musical plans for your 4th of July evening please consider the Mike Baggetta Trio.

Mike Baggetta - Guitar Cameron Brown - Bass Jeff Hirshfield - Drums

Sunday, July 4th 8pm and 10 pm (two sets)

Bar Next Door 129 MacDougal Street (Greenwich Village) New York, NY

The Bar Next Door is a cozy 28 seat venue known for being a listening room that presents ...
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Jeremy Udden Quartet (Fri) Tony Malaby's Apparitions (Sat) Cameron Brown and Friends (Sun) This Weekend at Cornelia Street Cafe

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
December 21, 2007

CORNELIA STREET CAFE 29 Cornelia Street, NYC, New York 212-989-9319 between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, V, F to West 4th St.

Fri Dec 21, 9:00PM & 10:30PM JEREMY UDDEN QUARTET: TORCHSONGS Jeremy Udden, saxophone;Ben Monder, guitar;Matt Wilson, drums;Matt Clohesy, bass

“The Boston soprano player has earned kudos in New England, impressing Either/Orchestra fans ...
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Shapes of Jazz Featuring Joe Lovano, Tom Harrell, Cameron Brown, Cindy Blackman (Fri-Sun) at the Iridium Jazz Club

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
December 7, 2007

IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB 1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) NEW YORK, NY 10023 RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121 Sets At 8:30 & 10:30PM Les Paul Sets Remain at 8:00 & 10:00PM Effective immediately, minimums are $10/person/set for all show except Les Paul - $15 mins. Dec. 7-9 SHAPES OF JAZZ JOE LOVANO, TOM HARRELL, CAMERON BROWN, CINDY BLACKMAN, ERIC ALEXANDER (Sunday Only) ...
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Les Paul (Mon) Mingus Legacy (Tues) Shapes of Jazz Feat. Joe Lovano, Tom Harrell, Cameron Brown, Cindy Blackman (Wed-Sun) at the Iridium Jazz Club

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
December 3, 2007

EVERY MONDAY LES PAUL AND HIS TRIO JOHN COLIANNI - PIANO - LOU PALLO - GUITAR, NICKI PARROTT - BASS

EVERY TUESDAY MINGUS ...
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Rob Scheps at Iridium, NYC, Sunday July 1st with Victor Jones, Cameron Brown and Barry Levitt

Source: All About Jazz
June 27, 2007

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Rob Scheps with Cameron Brown, Jamie Reynolds, Carl Stormer June 15 in Oslo, Norway

Source: All About Jazz
May 25, 2007

Saxophonist Rob Scheps brings NY bassist Cameron Brown & NY pianist Jamie Reynolds to join Norwegian drummer Carl Stormer in Oslo for shows at Belleville/Cosmopolite', Oslo's premier Live music venue.Friday June 15th. Playing Scheps'original music and other pieces, this seminal group will record at Rainbow Studio with Jan-Erik Konshaug, the famed ECM records engineer. The CD will be released Fall, 2007 with CD release parties in New York and Oslo. Scheps & Stormer will also play Bergen, Norway on June ...
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Performance / Tour

Dekel Bor with Cameron Brown and Jeff Hirshfield Tonight at Charley O's

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2006

"Dekel Bor's evocative live guitar playing...a fresh taste in music"--John Rockwell, New York Times

Israeli guitar sensation Dekel Bor will perform tonight with two of the most in-demand musicians on the jazz scene: bassist Cameron Brown and drummer Jeff Hirshfield.

The group will perform tonight, June 13th, at Charley O's, 8th Ave., corner of 45th Street,New York City, from 8:30 pm-midnight.

NO COVER!

Hope you can join us!

“Dekel Bor and his trio make some of the finest jazz that ...
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Performance / Tour

Big Bang (Mon.) Writers Room (Tue.) Songwriter's Beat (Wed.) Sheila Jordan/Cameron Brown (Thu) & More This Week at Cornelia St. Cafe

Source: All About Jazz
December 19, 2005

To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014 Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St. This Week at Cornelia Street Cafe Monday Dec 19 6:00PM NY QUARTERLY Ted Jonathan, host Angelo Verga; Andrea Lockett; Bill Zavatsky Three poets whose work has appeared in one our ...
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Dekel Bor Trio featuring Cameron Brown

Source: All About Jazz
November 15, 2005

“Dekel Bor and his band are the future of jazz" (Josef Harsonsky,Maariv) THE DEKEL BOR TRIO WILL BE PLAYING TONIGHT, Tues. Nov. 15 @ Charlie O's 8th ave. corner of 45th st. 8:30 pm- 12 am Dekel Bor - Guitar Cameron Brown - Bass Nadav Snir-Zelniker - Drums NO COVER To find out more: http://www.dekelbor.com/ “Dekel Bor and his band are the future of jazz" (Joseph Harsonsky,Maariv) “Dekel Bor and his trio make some of the finest jazz that I ...
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