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Marion Brown

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Marion Brown (September 8, 1931 – October 18, 2010) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and ethnomusicologist. [1]

74 relations: Afternoon of a Georgia Faun, Amherst College, Amina Claudine Myers, Amiri Baraka, Archie Shepp, Arista Records, Ascension (John Coltrane album), Atlanta, Attica Blues (album), Avant-garde, Barre Phillips, Baystate, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bowdoin College, Brandeis University, Brunswick, Maine, Clark Atlanta University, Clifford Thornton, Colby College, E.G. Records, ECM Records, Erik Satie, ESP-Disk, Ethnomusicology, Fire Music (Archie Shepp album), Fontana Records, Freedom Records, Freelance Records, Geechee Recollections, Georg Büchner, Gunter Hampel, Harold Budd, Hefty Records, His Name Is Alive, Hollywood, Florida, Howard University, Impressionism, Improvising Artists, Impulse! Records, Incidental music, Jazz, Jean Toomer, Jeanne Lee, Joe Overstreet, John Coltrane, John Tchicai, Le Fils des étoiles, Mal Waldron, Marcel Camus, Messe des pauvres, ..., Music of Africa, National Endowment for the Arts, New Haven, Connecticut, Ornette Coleman, Paul Bley, Pharoah Sanders, Poems for Piano: The Piano Music of Marion Brown, Rashied Ali, Regeneration (Stanley Cowell album), Romare Bearden, Scott Herren, Stanley Cowell, Steve McCall (drummer), Strata-East Records, Sun Ra, Superchunk, Sweet Earth Flower, Sweet Earth Flying, The New York Times, The Pavilion of Dreams, Three for Shepp, Timeless Muse, Vista (album), Wesleyan University. Expand index (24 more) »

Afternoon of a Georgia Faun

Afternoon of a Georgia Faun is an album by American jazz saxophonist Marion Brown recorded in 1970 and released on the ECM label.

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Amherst College

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States.

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Amina Claudine Myers

Amina Claudine Myers (born March 21, 1942) is an American jazz pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and arranger.

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Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism.

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Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Arista Records

Arista Records, Inc. was a major American record label.

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Ascension (John Coltrane album)

Ascension is a jazz album by John Coltrane recorded in 1965 and released in 1966.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Attica Blues (album)

Attica Blues is an album by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp.

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Avant-garde

The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.

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Barre Phillips

Barre Phillips (born October 27, 1934 in San Francisco, California) is a jazz bassist.

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Baystate

Baystate was a Japanese jazz record label.

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Blind Lemon Jefferson

Lemon Henry "Blind Lemon" Jefferson (September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929) was an American blues and gospel singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College is a private liberal arts college located in Brunswick, Maine.

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Brandeis University

Brandeis University is an American private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts, 9 miles (14 km) west of Boston.

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Brunswick, Maine

Brunswick is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States.

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Clark Atlanta University

Clark Atlanta University is a private, historically black university in Atlanta, in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Clifford Thornton

Clifford Edward Thornton III (September 6, 1936 – November 25, 1989) was an American jazz trumpeter, trombonist, activist, and educator.

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Colby College

Colby College is a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine.

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E.G. Records

E.G. Records was a British artist management company and independent record label, mostly active during the 1970s and 1980s.

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ECM Records

ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) is an independent record label founded by Manfred Eicher in Munich in 1969.

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Erik Satie

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 18661 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist.

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ESP-Disk

ESP-Disk is a New York-based record company and label founded in 1964 by lawyer Bernard Stollman.

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Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it.

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Fire Music (Archie Shepp album)

Fire Music is a studio album by Archie Shepp released on Impulse! Records in 1965.

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Fontana Records

Fontana Records is a record label which was started in the 1950s as a subsidiary of the Dutch Philips Records.

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Freedom Records

Freedom Records was a jazz record label headed by Shel Safran and founded by Alan Bates as a division of Black Lion Records.

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Freelance Records

Freelance Records existed during the 1980s and 1990s and released jazz albums on LP & CD.

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Geechee Recollections

Geechee Recollections is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Marion Brown recorded in 1973 and released on the Impulse! label.

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Georg Büchner

Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813 – 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement.

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Gunter Hampel

Gunter Hampel (born 31 August 1937) is a German jazz vibraphonist, clarinettist, saxophonist, flautist, pianist and composer born in Göttingen, Germany, perhaps best known for his album The 8th of July 1969 that included fellow musicians Anthony Braxton, Willem Breuker and Jeanne Lee.

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Harold Budd

Harold Montgomory Budd (born May 24, 1936) is an American avant-garde composer and poet.

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Hefty Records

Hefty Records is an independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois (United States).

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His Name Is Alive

His Name Is Alive is an American experimental rock band/project from Livonia, Michigan, United States.

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Hollywood, Florida

Hollywood is a city in Broward County, Florida, between Fort Lauderdale and Miami.

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Howard University

Howard University (HU or simply Howard) is a federally chartered, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university (HBCU) in Washington, D.C. It is categorized by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with higher research activity and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

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Impressionism

Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterised by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.

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Improvising Artists

Improvising Artists is a production company created by jazz pianist, Paul Bley, and video artist, Carol Goss, in 1974 for the purpose of recording improvised music and video art.

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Impulse! Records

Impulse! Records is an American jazz record company and label established by Creed Taylor in 1960.

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Incidental music

Incidental music is music in a play, television program, radio program, video game, film, or some other presentation form that is not primarily musical.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer, December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an African American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism.

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Jeanne Lee

Jeanne Lee (January 29, 1939 – October 25, 2000) was an American jazz singer, poet and composer.

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Joe Overstreet

Joe Overstreet (born 1933) is an American painter who lives and works in New York City.

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John Coltrane

John William Coltrane, also known as "Trane" (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967),.

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John Tchicai

John Martin Tchicai (April 28, 1936 – October 8, 2012) was a Danish free jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Le Fils des étoiles

Le Fils des étoiles (The Son of the Stars) is an incidental music score composed in December 1891 by Erik Satie to accompany a three-act poetic drama of the same name by Joséphin Péladan.

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Mal Waldron

Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.

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Marcel Camus

Marcel Camus (21 April 1912 – 13 January 1982) was a French film director.

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Messe des pauvres

The Messe des pauvres (Mass for the Poor) is a partial musical setting of the mass for mixed choir and organ by Erik Satie.

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Music of Africa

The traditional music of Africa, given the vastness of the continent, is historically ancient, rich and diverse, with different regions and nations of Africa having many distinct musical traditions.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Ornette Coleman

Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer.

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Paul Bley

Hyman Paul Bley, CM (November 10, 1932 – January 3, 2016) was a Canadian pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing and his early live performance on the Moog and Arp audio synthesizers.

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Pharoah Sanders

Pharoah Sanders (born October 13, 1940) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Poems for Piano: The Piano Music of Marion Brown

Poems for Piano: The Piano Music of Marion Brown is the debut album by American pianist Amina Claudine Myers featuring performances recorded in 1979 for the Sweet Earth label.

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Rashied Ali

Rashied Ali, born Robert Patterson (July 1, 1933 – August 12, 2009) was an American free jazz and avant-garde drummer best known for playing with John Coltrane in the last years of Coltrane's life.

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Regeneration (Stanley Cowell album)

Regeneration is an album by Stanley Cowell recorded in 1975 and first released on the Strata-East label.

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Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden (September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988) was an African-American artist.

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Scott Herren

Scott Herren is a producer who has been based in Atlanta, Barcelona and New York City.

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Stanley Cowell

Stanley Cowell (born May 5, 1941) is an American jazz pianist and co-founder of the Strata-East Records label.

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Steve McCall (drummer)

Steve McCall (September 30, 1933 – May 24, 1989) was an American jazz drummer.

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Strata-East Records

Strata-East Records is an American record company and label specialising in jazz that was founded in 1971 by Charles Tolliver and Stanley Cowell with the release of their first recording Music Inc. The label released over 50 albums in the 1970s.

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Sun Ra

Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, legal name Le Sony'r Ra; May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993) was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances.

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Superchunk

Superchunk is an American indie rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, consisting of singer-guitarist Mac McCaughan, guitarist Jim Wilbur, bassist Laura Ballance, and drummer Jon Wurster.

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Sweet Earth Flower

Sweet Earth Flower is a tribute album His Name is Alive recorded to honor the music of Marion Brown.

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Sweet Earth Flying

Sweet Earth Flying is an album by American jazz saxophonist Marion Brown recorded in 1974 and released on the Impulse! label.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Pavilion of Dreams

The Pavilion of Dreams is the second album from composer Harold Budd.

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Three for Shepp

Three for Shepp is the debut album by American saxophonist Marion Brown featuring performances recorded in 1966 for the Impulse! label.

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Timeless Muse

Timeless Muse was a jazz record label, a partnership between the Dutch label Timeless Records and the American label Muse Records.

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Vista (album)

Vista is an album by American jazz saxophonist Marion Brown recorded in 1975 and released on the Impulse! label.

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Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut, founded in 1831.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Brown

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