Tom Browne (trumpeter)

Tom Browne ( born October 30, 1954 in Queens, New York City ) is an American jazz trumpeter and singer of jazz radio.

He first learned the piano and then switched to the trumpet. He had in 1975 at Weldon Irvine His first professional engagement. After that he played with Sonny Fortune and Lonnie Smith, gained attention in the Jazz Club Lounge Breezin by George Benson in Harlem, with its house band he played, and received in the late 1970s a record deal with GRP Records. In 1979 there his first fusion album Browne Sugar. A top 10 hit in the UK in the singles charts and the U.S. R & B charts he had with Funkin for Jamaica from his second album Love Approach ( GRP 1980) with singer Toni Smith, his greatest success.

Further albums followed at GRP and their mother Arista, Magic and Yours Truly 1981 Rockin ' Radio in 1983 and Tommy Gun 1984. Afterwards he moved to Malaco Records in the 1990s to Hip Bop Records ( which appeared until 1999 albums).

He also took up with Roy Ayers and played with Bob James, Dave Grusin, Joe Sample and Wynton Marsalis.

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Jazzfunk Lonnie Liston Smith Jazz fusion Bob James (musician) Integrated Authority File
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