Scoville Browne
Scoville " Toby " Brown or Browne ( born October 13, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois, † October 4, 1994 in Atlanta ) was an American jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist of the swing and Dixieland jazz.
Life and work
Scoville Brown began his career in the late 1920s in Junie Cobb's band and the Midnight Ramblers in Chicago; 1931/32 he played saxophone and clarinet with the drummer and bandleader Fred Avendorph. From 1933 to 1935 he worked with Louis Armstrong; Mid-1930s, with Jesse Stone, Jack Butler, Claude Hopkins and accompanied singer Blanche Calloway. At the end of the decade, he studied at the Chicago College of Music. In the 1940s, Browne played with Slim Gaillard, Fats Waller, Buddy Johnson, Hot Lips Page and the trio of Eddie Heywood; then was drafted in World War II for the U.S. Army.
After the war, Brown reunited with Claude Hopkins, in Teddy Wilson's radio show on CBS and with Buck Clayton, heard in songs like " Dawn Dance" or " Basie Bluesicals Morning " in 1946, and in the late 1940s with Lucky Millinder. Between 1948 and 1952 he led his own band; 1952 to 1955 he played in Dixieland bands, such as the Stuyvesant Casino, and studied classical music. 1956/57, he played with Lionel Hampton, with whom he went to Europe and Middle East tour in the late 1950s with Muggsy Spanier. Brown joined in the 1960s and early 1970s again with Claude Hopkins on, in the 1980s, he headed the East Coast Jazz Band. Despite his many activities as leader of his own formations he took no records on under his own name.
Lexical entries
- Carlo Bohländer et al: Reclams jazz leader. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1970
- John Jorgensen, Erik Wiedemann: Jazz Encyclopedia. Munich: Mosaic, 1967
Weblink
- Scoville Brown at Allmusic (English)
Comments
- Jazz saxophonist
- Jazz clarinetist
- American musician
- Born in 1915
- Died in 1994
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