Rob Brown (saxophonist)
Robert " Rob" Brown ( born February 27, 1962 in Hampton, Virginia) is an American alto saxophonist of free jazz.
Life and work
Rob Brown came in 1984 to New York and began his career under the influence of the music of Albert Ayler and Jimmy Lyons and took over their Überblas techniques; He then worked in the late 1980s with Matthew Shipp, Whit Dickey and William Parker ( Points, 1990). In 1989, he took for Silkheart Records first album under his own name, Breath Rhyme, with William Parker and Dennis Charles; In 1992 he was on Riti Records, the trio album Youniverse with Joe Morris and Whit Dickey. In 1996 he took two extended duets with Matthew Shipp on ( Blink of an Eye ), 1997 was for CIMP in quartet combination with Assif Tsahar, Lou Grassi and Chris Lightcap the slightly more conservative - so the critics Cook & Morton - Production Scratching the Surface. 1999 Brown appeared on Assif Tsahars album The Hollow World with; He also played in Alan Silva's Sound Visions Orchestra (1999). In 2000 he took part in William Parker's Album O'Neill 's Porch; this in turn played with Warren Smith on Brown's album Round the Bend, which was created in May 2001. In 2008 he released the album Crown Trunk Root Funk at AUM Fidelity.
In addition, Brown has worked throughout his career with Rashied Ali, Billy Bang, Tim Berne, Borah Bergman, Anthony Braxton, Mark Dresser, Grachan Moncur III, Butch Morris, Reggie Workman, Henry Grimes, Roy Campbell, Hamid Drake and Fred Hopkins. He also collaborated with various dance companies, poets, and performance artists.
Swell
- Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002
- Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 9th Edition, London, Penguin, 2008 ISBN 978-0141034010.