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Bassist Tyrone Brown has recorded over 125 CDs to date including six with legendary drummer Max Roach, six with saxophonist Odean Pope, five with Grover Washington, Jr. (two went gold "Live At The Bijou" and "Reed Seed"), four with guitarist Pat Martino, three with Bobby Zankel, and one each with vocalist Rachelle Ferrell and pianist Dave Burrell. An alumnus of the famed Berklee School Of Music, Brown received a fellowship grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and won a grant from the Pennsylvania Council On The Arts for Artistic Excellence in Jazz Composition 2001. Tyrone Brown has also garnered the "Best Acoustic Bass" honors in the Jazz Philadelphia Magazine Readers Choice Poll 1993 and 1994. Traveling all over the world, Brown has conducted Master Classes in Barcelona, Spain and Jerusalem, Israel and conducted Improvisation Symposiums at Brigham Young University, Illinois State University, and Temple University. In 1996, his Solo Bass Concert at the 25th Anniversary of the Moers Germany Jazz Festival drew five thousand people. Tyrone Brown has also worked with Lou Rawls, Billy Paul, Trudy Pitts & Mr. C, Freddie Hubbard, Phil Woods, Mulgrew Miller, Clark Terry, Johnny Hartman, Sonny Fortune, Etta Jones, Benny Golson, Dizzy Gillespie, Steve Marcus, Kenny Barron, J.J.Johnson, Dave Burrell, Donald Byrd, Nat Adderly, Cecil Bridgewater, Sam Rivers, Stanley Turrentine, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Sir Roland Hanna, and many others. Brown has toured and recorded with The Max Roach Quartet since 1984, and the Odean Pope Trio and Saxophone Choir since 1991. Dizzy Gillespie wrote, “Tyrone Brown's playing reminds me of those colorful bouncing balls you see at a carnival." Drummer Max Roach said, "Tyrone Brown is one of the most creative musicians I have ever worked with. He is a fine composer and arranger and a virtuoso instrumentalist." Bob Blumenthal of the Boston Globe notes that "Tyrone plays with the passion and flair of a flamenco guitarist.”

D.B. Shrier: D. B. Shrier emerges

Read "D. B. Shrier emerges" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
March 23, 2023

The provenance behind this full-bore blow out recorded in 1967 by jny: Philadelphia tenor sax legend D.B.Shrier differs from most myths in the fact that we now have pure, full-blown proof of what a night in his company sounded like: A scorching combustion of energy, virtuosity and audience adulation. Originally released by Alfa Records in 1967, the first five tracks of D.B. Shrier emerges may sound a primitive as hell having been recorded at a community college, but ...

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Tyrone Brown: Suite For John A. Williams

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by Nic Jones
December 19, 2005

Though this disc would never win any awards for longevity--it clocks in at under 35 minutes--the fact that the music has such substance more than makes up for it. On the other hand, if there was more of it, the disc could possibly appear on some of those year-end lists.

As a bassist himself, Brown has no little appreciation of the qualities inherent in other instruments in the string family, and his writing for the string quartet heard here, with ...

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Tyrone Brown: Song Of The Sun

by AAJ Staff
April 1, 2000

These days, the boundaries of what is and what isn't jazz are being blurred by a number of factors, including but not limited to: changes of instrumentation, the break from traditional 2 and 4 on the cymbal, absence of a walking bass-line, and the introduction of new, impeccably dressed, well manicured artists who wear frilly shirts and have fancy hairdo's. These artists are colorful entertainers, capable of exhibiting a multitude of facial expressions and grimaces as they play music that ...

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Jazz Bridge Second Wednesdays Concert Series In Center City Presents Bassist Tyrone Brown

Source: Bruce Klauber
November 12, 2014

Jazz Bridge Second Wednesdays Concert Series in Center City presents bassist Tyrone Brown at the Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion—Chestnut Street—on Wednesday, January 14. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available only at the door. Show time is 7:30. Information: 215-517-8337. There’s very little in the jazz industry that bassist/composer/arranger/educator Tyrone Brown hasn’t done. His beginnings—studies in orchestration and harmony at the Berklee School of Music and private study with Philadelphia Orchestra Principal Bassist Michael Shahan—are as ...
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Bassist Tyrone Brown In Kennett Square, Wednesday Dec. 5th

Source: Jim Miller
November 13, 2012

Jazz Bridge in Kennett Square! presents renowned bassist Tyrone Brown appearing at Kennett Flash—102 Sycamore Alley in Kennett Square—on Wednesday, December 5th as part of his Jazz Renaissance Quartet in a special tribute to Charlie Parker and Bud Powell. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available only at the door. Show time is 7:30.

There’s very little in the jazz industry that bassist/composer/arranger/educator Tyrone Brown hasn’t done. His beginnings—studies in orchestration and harmony at the Berklee School of ...
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Kusangala(Tyrone Brown, Gloria Galante, Odean Pope) performs benefit concert for strings for schools Sept 30, 2005 8 pm

Source: All About Jazz
August 19, 2005

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Odean Pope "Voices" Featuring Dr. Art Davis And Tyrone Brown

Source: All About Jazz
August 7, 2002

This sort of chamber jazz stuff is right up my alley. Any players trying to bridge the gap between European classical music and American jazz will get a good listen from me, even if it doesn't always work that perfectly. This group has lots going for it: Brown is one of the grooviest bassists playing today; he's been with Nat Adderly, Clark Terry, Freddie Hubbard and Max Roach, among others. John Blake is one of the greatest living jazz violinists, with 35 CDs to his name. The other string players come from various symphonies and string quartets of note, and percussionist William Duke Wilson adds his rhythm touches to the strings on a couple of the tracks. Bassist Brown adds three of his own tunes to the CD, and the two standards 'All the Things You Are' and 'Softly as in a Morning Sunrise' provide welcome familiarity in the program. (The first is a striking unaccompanied violin solo by Blake.) - John Henry, Audiophile Audition, March 2000