Ari Brown
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Ari Brown, born February 1, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois, is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and pianist. He began his musical career playing piano in R&B and soul bands throughout the 1960s before switching to saxophone in 1965. Brown joined the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in 1971 and played with The Awakening in the early 1970s. After a car crash in 1974, he temporarily returned to piano but resumed playing saxophone later in the decade, collaborating with prominent artists such as McCoy Tyner, Don Patterson, and Sonny Stitt. In the 1980s, he formed his own quintet and worked with musicians including Lester Bowie, Von Freeman, Bobby Watson, and Anthony Braxton. Brown released his debut album as a leader, Ultimate Frontier, in 1996 on Delmark Records, followed by Venus (1998), Live at the Green Mill (2007), and Groove Awakening (2013).
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- The Way You Look Tonight by Ari Brown
- Next Time You See Me by Ari Brown
- Enka
- Compassion by Ari Brown
- Sunny by Ari Brown
- Africanos/Latinos featuring Ari Brown
