Andrew Brown (musician)
Andrew "Andy" Brown (February 2, 1900 - August 1960) was an American jazz reedist. He played clarinet, bass saxophone, alto saxophone, and tenor saxophone, and is best known for his longtime association with Cab Calloway.
Early in the 1920s Brown worked in the bands of P.B. Langford and Wilson Robinson. He was a member of the house band at Harlem's Cotton Club starting in 1925. This group eventually came to be known as the Missourians under bandleader ; by the end of the 1920s, Cab Calloway had taken leadership of it.[1] Brown played in Calloway's band until 1945, including on many recording sessions and a tour of Europe in 1934.[2] He appeared alongside Calloway as a performer in sound films including Hi-De-Ho (1937), Blues in the Night (1942), and Minnie the Moocher (1942).[1] In the late 1940s Brown ran a music education studio in New York.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Andrew Brown". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.
- ^ Eugene Chadbourne, Andrew Brown at Allmusic
- American jazz saxophonists
- American male saxophonists
- American jazz clarinetists
- 1900 births
- 1960 deaths
- 20th-century saxophonists
- 20th-century American male musicians
- American male jazz musicians
- The Cab Calloway Orchestra members