Boyce Brown
Boyce Brown | |
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Birth name | Boyce Brown |
Born | April 16, 1910 |
Origin | Chicago, Illinois |
Died | January 30, 1959 | (aged 48)
Genres | Jazz |
Occupation(s) | Saxophonist |
Instruments | Alto saxophone |
Associated acts | Wingy Manone |
Boyce Brown (April 16, 1910 – January 30, 1959) was an American jazz dixieland alto saxophonist born in Chicago, Illinois.
Brown worked with Wingy Manone, Paul Mares, and Danny Alvin. His best-known recordings are a 1935 session with Paul Mares and his Friars Society Orchestra (first issued on LP in 1955 as part of Columbia's Chicago Style Jazz album) and a 1939 session with Jimmy McPartland & his Jazz Band, which was first released as part of Decca's Chicago Jazz album. In both sessions, Brown demonstrates a driving, harmonically advanced style.
In 1953, Brown entered a monastery, and returned in 1956 to release his one and only album as Brother Matthew, backed by a band organized by Eddie Condon.[1]
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