Marshall Brown (musician)
Marshall Richard Brown was a jazz valve trombonist and teacher.Career
Brown graduated from New York University with a degree in music. He was a band teacher in New York City schools, and one of his school band's performed at the Newport Jazz Festival in the 1950s. With George Wein, he went to Europe to look for musicians for the International Youth Band. In the late 1950s he started the Newport Youth Band. His students included Eddie Gomez, Duško Gojković, George Gruntz, Albert Mangelsdorff, Jimmy Owens, and Gabor Szabo. He worked with Ruby Braff, Bobby Hackett, Lee Konitz, and Pee Wee Russell.
On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Marshall Brown among hundreds of musicians whose material was destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.Discography
As leader
- The Ruby Braff-Marshall Brown Sextet
- Live at the Chi Chi Club
As sideman
- Count Basie, Basie's Beat
- Beaver Harris, From Rag Time to No Time
- Lee Konitz, The Lee Konitz Duets
- Lee Konitz, Peacemeal
- Pee Wee Russell, New Groove
- Pee Wee Russell, Ask Me Now!
- George Wein, George Wein & the Newport All-Stars
