Artist description New Orleans Dixieland Jazz Musician

Music Style Dixieland Jazz

Artist History Albert Francis (Pud) Brown, (Wilmington, DE, 22 Jan 1917) Clarinetist, saxophonist and trumpeter. A member of a musical family, he toured with the family band from 1927 and played in theater orchestras in the early 1930s. He then moved to Chicago, where he worked with Bud Freeman, Jimmy Dorsey, the clarinetist Bud Jacobson, and the cornetist Pete Daily.  After four years in Shreveport, Louisiana (1945-9) he moved to Los Angeles; he remained in California until 1973. As well as recording with Nappy Lamare (c. 1949, 1950), Jack Teagarden (1951-2) Kid Ory (1953), and Teddy Buckner (1958), he made broadcasts with Ory and also led his own band. His playing on both clarinet and tenor saxophone may be heard on the album Lee Collins-Ralph Sutton's Jazzola Six, i (1953, Rarities 31), taken from broadcasts made by a group at the Club Hangover, San Francisco. Brown began to double on cornet and trumpet in the early 1960s. Pud also played with Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Les Brown, Lawrence Welk. From 1973, when he returned to Shreveport, he frequently played in New Orleans, notably with the guitarist and banjoist Les Muscutt at the Blue Angel in Bourbon Street. He recorded with his own all-star band, which included Dick Cary, Eddie Miller, Shelly Manne, and Lamare, in 1977. Besides his principal instruments, he has occasionally played double bass. In the 1980s he played clarinet regularly with Clive Wilson's Original Camellia Jazz Band in New Orleans, and in 1984-5 worked for six months in Singapore under the leadership of the drummer Trevor Richards. Brown died of a heart attack at his home in Algiers, LA on May 27. He was 79. For the last 20 years of his life, Brown was a strong presence in traditional New Orleans jazz circles. In 1975, Brown traveled to New Orleans for a brief engagement and decided to make the city his home.

Albums "Then And Now," "Tenor For Two," "Pud Does It Again," "Pud Plays Clarinet," "Palm Court Strut," "Jambalaya," "Friends Of Louis," "A Salute to Louis Armstrong," "Lee Collins - Ralph Sutton's Jazzola Six, Vol...1," "Lee Collins Volumes 1 & 2, At the Club Hangover Air Shots Vol. 1 with Ralph Sutton," "Jack Teagarden Unforgetables - 1952," "Jack Teagarden Live At The Royal Room, Hollywood -1951," "Good Time Jazz Story," "Raid The Juke Box," "Creole Jazz Band at Club Hangover," "From New Orleans Sylvia Kuumba Williams," "Clancy Hayes Swinging Minstrel," "Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band," "Just a Little While with Aline White and Magnolia Jazz Band," "Chris Clifton and his All Stars Memories of a Friend," "Rosy Mc Hargue and his Dixieland band," "Good Time Jazz Story," "Jack Teagarden Live At The Royal Room, Hollywood -1951," "Jack Teagarden Unforgetables - 1952," "Lee Collins - Ralph Sutton's Jazzola Six, Vol...1," "Lee Collins Volumes 1 & 2, At the Club Hangover Air Shots Vol. 1 with Ralph Sutton," "Jimmy Ille, New Orleans Ragtime Band, The Second Line," "Hal Kelly & The Bourbon Street Ramblers, A Night In Old New Orleans," "Pud's last CD, Jambalay

Location New Orleans, LA - USA

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