Pud Brown

Albert Francis " Pud " Brown ( born January 22, 1917 in Wilmington (Delaware ), † 27 May 1996 Algiers, Louisiana ) was an American musician (clarinet, saxophone) and composer of Dixieland jazz.

Brown grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana, and began playing the saxophone five years; first experiences as a musician, he gathered in the family band before he toured with vaudeville troops and worked in theater orchestras in the early 1930s. In 1938 he was at Chicago at the Philharmonic Orchestra Lavant, who played Dixieland jazz. The late 1940s, Brown was involved in recordings of Louis Armstrong and Les Brown; under his own name he took as Pud Brown's Delta Kings for the small label West Craft with Jack and Charlie Teagarden, Jess Stacy and Ray Bauduc on (Jersey Bounce ). In the 1950s, he played one of his own composition Johnson Rag, which was successful in the R & B charts, and also in 1953 for Capitol Records Take The " A" Train in a trio setting. Other recordings from this period with Doc Cheatham, Danny Barker, Kid Ory, Teddy Buckner (1958) and Percy Humphrey; He also was a member of the orchestra of Lawrence Welk. After he had worked thirty years in Los Angeles, Brown moved in 1975 to New Orleans. There he came in the 1980s, he joined band with Clive Wilson 's Original Camellia Jazz on. Shortly before his death he participated in recordings of the New Orleans Jazz Wizards (1995).

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Palm Court Strut ( Jazzology, 1994)
  • Pud Brown Plays Clarinet ( Jazzology, 1995)
  • Kid Ory: The Kid's the Greatest ( 1953-56 )
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