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From Montreal to Ottawa, Toronto, and New York; from radio, to television, jazz festivals, clubs and concert venues; from local fans to prime ministers; the Brian Browne Trio never fails to delight audiences with it's swinging, pure jazz sound. Please take a few moments to browse the recordings by the Brian Browne Trio and join the Brian Browne Friends mailing list for information on special events and performances. If you have any questions, please email us at info@brianbrowne.com.
In 1969, CBC Television produced "The Jazz Piano", a special arts programme
featuring a select group of jazz pianists: Errol Garner, Bill Evans, Marian
McPartland, and Brian Browne. A Canadian jazz pianist extraordinaire, Brian
Browne has a unique natural gift for music that is manifested through a
highly individual sense of musical artistry - a gift which granted Browne a
certain membership to the distinguished company featured in the programme.
Brian Browne has produced seven recordings that have come to be treasured by those who possess them. "The Letter", issued by Capital Recordings was a recognized hit. It featured the composition "Morning Noon and Night-time Too", for which Browne won the coveted BMI Composition of the Year award in 1974. With a musical career that spans over thirty years, he has gained a reputation as a true Canadian jazz legend. Recently, he returned to Canada from a 10 year stay in New York City where his current release "Live at Tramps" was recorded. Originally from Montreal, Browne moved as a teenager to Ottawa, where his musical career soon began. By the age of eighteen he was playing in local clubs and soon had his own CBC radio programme. He studied at the Berklee School of Music and later won a scholarship to study with Oscar Peterson in Toronto. In 1986 he opened Zoe's Lounge in Ottawa's Chateau Laurier hotel and remained there for a year as musical director. He subsequently moved to New York City, where he spent several years actively in the music scene. With his return to Ottawa, long-time fans of Browne's soulful, swinging piano sound are once again delighted by his local appearances. 
Brian Browne Christmas
Christmas
The new solo piano release "Christmas" - The spirit of the season captured in the rich harmonies and swinging jazz piano sound that only Brian Browne can deliver! Recorded on a 9 foot Steinway grand piano, the broad selection of Christmas songs old and new, familiar and obscure, is a perfect context for the rich, warm, blues-tinged language of jazz.
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Odyssey
Odyssey - Brian Browne
After laying hidden for years, a master recording of a rare solo piano concert for the CBC has made its debut on CD. Digitally remastered and now available for the first time, Odyssey is a compilation of Brian Browne originals that, one afternoon in 1986, were laid down on tape before an audience enraptured by the endless improvisational creativity of Browne playing at his peak. A treaure.
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Quiet Night
Quiet Night - The Brian Browne Trio
Recorded live at the intimate Cafe Paradiso in Ottawa, the new release from the Brian Browne Trio is a musical treat that will set the perfect note for a Quiet Night of beautiful, warm and sensitively interpreted music.
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Testimony
Testimony - Peter Woods & Brian Browne
Track listing 1. The Rev 2. What a Wonderful World 3. Nature Boy 4. Willow Weep for Me 5. I'll Be Around 6. Lament 7. Prose and Poetry 8. Georgia 9. The Water is Wide 10. As Time Goes By 11. Roses of Picardy 12. Come Sunday 13. Testimony Testimony, the debut release from Ottawa sax man Peter Woods, bears witness to the creative harmony found in an effective musical partnership. Woods, a relative newcomer to the scene, provides lyrical interpretations against the lush harmonic backdrop created by veteran jazz pianist Brian Browne. A fine introduction to Woods' playing, this CD also features numerous passages where Browne's distinctive solo piano sound, on a beautiful Steinway grand piano, can be fully appreciated. 
Blue Browne
Blue Browne - Brian Browne TrioSea Jam Recordings SJ 1012-2
Track listing Find out why this album continues to get excellent reviews... the Brian Browne Trio's latest album features bassist Paul Novotny with drummers Barry Elmes and Archie Alleyne backing Brian's simmering piano grooves! 
Live at the Park Plaza
Live at the Park Plaza, The Brian Browne Trio
Brian Browne - Piano
Track listing By the way, if straight lines are your thing, make one to your record player, or, better still, to the Rowland Emmet Lounge, Park Plaza, Toronto. There's something for the eye and very definitely something for the ear. 
The Letter
The Letter, Brian BrowneCapitol Records (Canada) Ltd. SKAO 6305
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We met a butterfly 
The Toronto Scene
The Toronto Scene - The Brian Browne TrioRCA Victor Company PC/PCS-1022
Piano: Brian Browne
Track listing The two sidemen on this album are Pearson "Skip" Beckwith on bass and Dan Vickery on drums. Oddly enough, both these young musicians hail from Halifax where they played together in their earlier years. Brian met Skip in Toronto where he was studying bass with Ray Brown. Skip brought Don to Brian's attention and the Brian Browne Trio as it is today was formed. As Peter Shaw has said so many times on the network, "Here then, is the Brian Browne Trio". 
Tramps
Live at Tramps - The Brian Browne Trio
Recorded live in New York City this album features the distinctive sound of the Brian Browne Trio. Enjoy the swinging sound of a jazz piano trio at its finest.
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Beatles
Beatles - Brian BrowneJazzimage JZ105 / Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1986
Produced by Athan Katsos From nuance to shout, Brian Browne's style is well suited to his numerous jazz trio and concert appearances across North America. Television and recording artist, soloist and studio musisian, all these avenues reveal Brian's sensitivity for melody and feel for a "groove". 
Listen People
Listen, People! The Brian Browne TrioRCA Victor Company, Ltd. PC/PCS-1110
Track Listing Listen, people! And they do when Brian Browne and his trio take over. Then a certain magic pours through the room and you can hear the tinkling of glasses. Here's a tale of talent, of music warm, close, the music you like to have surround you, like to keep around you. Great listening, every time!
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From Montreal to Ottawa, Toronto, and New York; from radio, to television, jazz festivals, clubs and concert venues; from local fans to prime ministers; the Brian Browne Trio never fails to delight audiences with it's swinging, pure jazz sound.
Please take a few moments to browse the recordings by the Brian Browne Trio and join the Brian Browne Friends mailing list for information on special events and performances.
If you have any questions, please email us at info@brianbrowne.com.
