Cleo Patra Brown

Cleo Patra Brown ( born December 8, 1909 in Meridian (Mississippi), † April 15, 1995 in Denver ) was an American jazz pianist and singer.

Brown has the boogie woogie piano style learned from her brother Everett, who worked with Pine Top Smith. Her family moved to Chicago in 1919, where she worked at the age of 14 worked in vaudeville area. Through illness, she had to interrupt her career in the early 1940s. Beginning of the 1950s, she appeared regularly at the Three Deuces club in Chicago. Brown also worked in New York City, where she had her own radio show on WABC, in Hollywood, Las Vegas and San Francisco. She took on, among others, with the Decca All-Stars and in her time on the West Coast for Capitol Records. In 1953, she interrupted her career again to work as a nurse. At the age she worked as a church musician in the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Denver. In 1987, she appeared in Marian McPartlands radio series Piano Jazz.

She was the first Jazzinstrumentalistin, which was awarded the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship. Your game has the young Dave Brubeck affected. Even today, musicians take their music in recent works on, such as in Spring Swing Monkey Safari.

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• Cleo Brown 1935-1951 ( Classics ) with Nappy Lamare, Artie Bernstein, Gene Krupa, Vic Berton, Zutty Singleton, Victor Young Orchestra
• Discography Cleo Brown