Vernon Brown (musician)

Vernon Brown ( born January 6, 1907 in Venice, Illinois, † May 18, 1979 in Los Angeles ) was an American jazz trombonist of swing and Dixieland jazz.

Vernon Brown grew up in St. Louis. In his early years as a musician, he played there in 1925 and 1926, with Frankie Trumbauer and Bix Beiderbecke. In the late 1920s he went to Jean Gold Chain (1928 ), Benny Meroff, but mostly worked on the radio orchestras of St. Louis, until he came to the mid-1930s to New York. Here he played in the band of Mezz Mezzrow (1937) and in the same year in Benny Goodman's orchestra; there he remained until 1940. Moreover he took during this time plates with Harry James (Texas Chatters, 1938) on. In 1940, he joined the band of Artie Shaw, 1941 for Jan Savitt and Muggsy Spanier ( Hesitating Blues 1941 /42) and the Casa Loma Orchestra.

In the 1940s, Brown moved stylistically from swing to Dixieland, often working as a studio musician and with Sidney Bechet. In 1950 he led his own band and took Reunion Tours with Benny Goodman and toured with him in 1953 and 1958 through Europe. In 1963 he worked with Tony Parenti and otherwise worked until the early 1970s as a studio musician for television and radio orchestras. In the 1950s, he took on records with Bobby Hackett, Wild Bill Davison, Cozy Cole, Bud Freeman, Ray McKinley. Stylistically Brown is influenced by Jack Teagarden.