Garnett Brown – Biography, Discography & Instruments

Biography

Garnett Brown was a jazz musician who played trombone. Garnett Brown was born on 31 January 1936 in Memphis and died on 9 October 2021. The music is usually filed under jazz.

Garnett Pompilius Brown (January 31, 1936 – October 9, 2021) was an American jazz trombonist who worked with The Crusaders, Herbie Hancock, Lionel Hampton, Earth Wind and Fire and others. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, he graduated from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and later studied film scoring and electronic music at UCLA. In 1974 he won the Down Beat Reader's poll for trombonist, and appears on the classic 1976 recording Bobby Bland and B.B. King Together Again...Live. Brown did some work in film and television composition due to his training in the field. In 1989 he was the conductor and orchestrator for Harlem Nights. Coincident with Kenny Burrell joining UCLA as Director of Jazz Studies in 1996, Brown co-led UCLA Jazz Ensemble I with John Clayton. Garnett and his wife Anna had two daughters, Ariana Brown and Miranda Brown-Muir, and three grandchildren: Luca Muir, Francesca Muir and Alessandra Muir.

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Albums where Garnett Brown is credited as a sideman

1966	Hold On, I’m Coming — Art Blakey	trombone
1967	Heavy!!! — Booker Ervin	trombone
1967	Booker 'n' Brass — Booker Ervin	trombone
1968	Stay Loose — Jimmy Smith	trombone
1969	The Prisoner — Herbie Hancock	trombone
1969	Soul & Salvation — Dizzy Gillespie	trumpet
1969	New Grass — Albert Ayler	trombone
1969	America the Beautiful — Gary McFarland	trombone
1970	Louis Armstrong and His Friends — Louis Armstrong	trombone
1970	Tide — Antonio Carlos Jobim	trombone
1970	Just a Little Lovin’ — Carmen McRae	trombone
1972	Sky Dive — Freddie Hubbard	trombone
1973	Song of the New World — McCoy Tyner	trombone
1973	Forecast — Eric Gale	trombone
1974	Crosswinds — Billy Cobham	trombone, performer
1974	In Concert — Deodato / Airto	trombone
1974	The Fourth Dimension — Brother Jack McDuff	trombone
1975	Man-Child — Herbie Hancock	trombone
1975	Polar AC — Freddie Hubbard	trombone, brass
1976	Silver 'N Wood — Horace Silver	trombone
1976	Everything Must Change — Randy Crawford	trombone
1977	Bundle of Joy — Freddie Hubbard	trombone
1978	Sunlight — Herbie Hancock	brass
1978	Night Dancing — Joe Farrell	trombone
1979	Street Life — The Crusaders	trombone
1981	Mr. C — Norman Connors	trombone
1993	Jazz for a Sunday Afternoon — Chick Corea, Joe Farrell, Elvin Jones, Richard Davis, Garnett Brown, Marvin Stamm	trombone
1993	The Electrifying Eddie Harris / Plug Me In — Eddie Harris	trombone
1997	Village Vanguard Live Sessions — Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie, Elvin Jones, Mel Lewis, Ray Nance, Pepper Adams, Richard Davis	trombone
2007	75th Birthday Bash Live! — Kenny Burrell	trombone