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BROWN, GARNETT (Jr.) (b Memphis, 31 Jan 1936). Trombonist.

After a year at college he played with Charles Lloyed, but his first major association was with Chico Hamilton, whom he joined in 1962.
During the 1960s he taught at public schools in New York and worked with groups that played Latin music. He toured Sweden with George Russell (1964), and performed and recorded with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra (1966-8), Duke Pearson (1967-8), and Herbie Hancock (1970-72); he also performed at the Newport Jazz Festival with Billy Taylor, Benny Carter, and others. In 1975 he moved to Los Angeles where he worked in theater orchestras and as a studio musician; he played on albums by the Capp-Pierce Juggernaut (1978) and Lionel Hampton (1981).

Brown's playing is infulenced ny the work of Frank Rosolino, Jimmy Cleveland, J.J. Johnson, and Slide Hampton; he is a remarkably flexible player in many styles, including swing, bop, modal jazz, and jazz-rock; he has also composed and written arrangements for a variety of bands."

The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. St. Martin's Press. 1995. Page 157.