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Deborah Brown
photo by Pavel Korbut
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Deborah's musical talents have propelled her from coast to coast in the USA, eventually leading her to Japan, Indonesia and the far east and culminating in a 12 year residency in Europe.

Performing in nightclubs, concerts, jazz festivals, on television and radio soundstages, Deborah has made a name for herself with appearances in more than 50 countries around the world.

Deborah Brown has recorded 11 albums as a leader and has been featured on numerous other recordings as a special guest soloist.

Musical Moments

Deborah has enjoyed participating in and creating many unique musical situations... among these (in no particular order) are...A duet recording with trombonist Slide Hampton. A 10 concert tour in duo with piano master, Roger Kellaway. Duo performances with pianists Cedar Walton and Dorothy Donegan. A performance of "My One and Only Love" with trumpet star Clark Terry. A studio recording of the CD "A Lover's Question" with author James Baldwin. Tours with her quartet JAZZ 4 JAZZ, that featured pianist Horace Parlan, Red Mitchell or Hein van de Geijn on acoustic bass and drum wizard Ed Thigpen. Concert performances with Johnny Griffin, Benny Bailey, Billy Mitchell, Michelle LeGrand, "Toots" Thielemans, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Bobby Shew, Kenny Drew, Roy Hargrove, The Eric Reed trio, the Doky Brothers and many, many others.


Deborah Brown
photo by Mac Davidson

Touring as the featured vocalist with Russia's Oleg Lundstrem Orchestra, the Sandviken Bigband from Sweden and Kluver's Bigband from Denmark. Spending a week in Tblisi, Georgia for their jazz festival in the company of Art Blakey, Sun Ra, Jackie McLean, Benny Golson, Curtis Fuller and many others.

Recording the Dutch television special production for UNICEF with Audrey Hepburn and Roger Moore.

Studio recording with Dutch avant-garde cellist Ernst Reijseger. Touring Siberia and the Ukraine with Russian saxophonist Nicolai Panov's quintet "Jazz Gallery". Bringing together musicians from 7 different countries to record a CD and a concert tour of the Netherlands and Belgium.

Deborah Brown continues to promote the art of jazz by performing and recording her interpretations of classic standards and fresh original compositions, always expanding the musical boundaries of vocalist, musician, entertainer and band leader.


Festivals Deborah has performed in include:

Alandia Jazz (Finland)
Blacksea Festival (USSR)
Carthage Jazz Festival (Tunesia)
Drum Festival (the Netherlands)
Jazz Jamboree (Poland)
Jazz Promenade Brussel (Belgium)
Jazz Promenade Lyon (France)
Middleheim (Belgium)
Montreaux Jazz Festival (Switzerland)
Northsea Festival (the Netherlands)
Ocho Rios Jazz Festival (Jamaica)
Sandviken Bigband Bang (Sweden)
Stockholm Jazz & Blues (Sweden)
Tblisi Festival (Georgia USSR)


Clubs Deborah has performed in include:

Bimhuis

(Amsterdam)

Brussels Jazzclub (Brussels)
Copenhagen Jazzhaus (Copenhagen)
Jazz Jamboree (Barcelona)
La Villa (Paris)
Latitude (Paris)
Riverside Jazzclub (Antwerp)
Ronnie Scott's (London)
Slukefta (Copenhagen)
St. James Club (Paris)
Subway (Koln)


Deborah has performed/worked/recorded with:

Organ:

Drums:

Dr. Lonnie Liston Smith

Louis Bellson

Rhoda Scott

Terri Lyne Carrington

 

Keith Copeland

Big Bands:

Idris Muhammad

Belgian Radio and Television Orchestra

Bernard Purdie

Hilversum Conservatory Big Band

Alvin Queen

Klüvers Big Band

Ed Thigpen

Sandvik Big Band

Kenny Washington

Oleg Lundstrum Orchestra (Russia)

 

Big Band Bos (Ruud Bos)

Trombone:

WDR radio bigband (Germany)

Phil Abraham

ZDF radio bigband (Germany)

Buster Cooper

 

Slide Hampton

Piano:

Monty Alexander

Sax:

Johan Clement

Harold Ashby

Niels Lan Doky

Lou Donaldson

Dorothy Donegan

Teddy Edwards

Kenny Drew

Johnny Griffin

Roger Kellaway

Billy Mitchell

Michel Legrand

James Moody

Jan Lundgren

Houston Person

Horace Parlan

Hal Singer

Eric Reed

Jack Van Poll

Guitar:

Cedar Walton

Russell Malone

James Williams

Ulf Wakenius

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Bass:

Trumpet:

Chris Minh Doky

Benny Bailey

Ray Drummond

Harry "Sweets" Edison

Reggie Johnson

Rolf Erickson

Red Mitchell

Art Farmer

Jean-Louis Rassinfosse

Roy Hargrove

Rufus Reid
Jimmy Owens
Bo Steif
Bobby Shew
Joris Teepe
Idrees Sulieman
Hein Van De Geyn
Clark Terry
Roger Vanhaverbeke
 
Mads Vinding