Ari Brown

Ari Brown (actually Richard Brown, born February 1, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American saxophonist of the Creative Jazz.

Life and work

Ari Brown visited the Wilson College in Chicago and worked until 1965 as a pianist for various soul and blues bands. He then moved to the saxophone and began to seriously take an interest in jazz. In 1971 he became a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, the other graduates of Wilson College such as Jack DeJohnette, Henry Threadgill, Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman belong, and played a few albums with the group The Awakening one.

In the late 1970s he worked among others with McCoy Tyner, Don Patterson and Sonny Stitt, in the 1980s with Lester Bowie, Von Freeman, Bobby Watson and Anthony Braxton. Since 1989 he was one of Kahil Ritual Trio El'Zabars. He also worked as a sideman for Anthony Braxton, Muhal Richard Abrams, Lou Rawls, BB King, Chuck Berry, Elvin Jones, Andrew White, Della Reese, Billy Eckstine, and others. He also played with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the premiere of the opera Malcolm X by Anthony Davis. His first CD as a bandleader, appeared in 1996.

Discography

• Anthony Braxton 's Charlie Parker Project 1993
• Ultimate Frontier with Kirk Brown, Yosef Ben Israel, Avreeayl Ra, Dr. Cuz, 1996