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Jack Brownlow Trio: Suddenly It's Bruno

Read "Suddenly It's Bruno" reviewed by Dave Nathan


Jack Brownlow was born in Wenatchee, a small town in Washington State. So was bop saxophonist, Don Lanphere and jazz writer Doug Ramsey. Ramsey relates an interesting bit of jazz trivia about Wenatchee in his very good book Jazz Matters: Reflections on the Music and Some of Its Makers. Ramsey, long an admirer of Miles Davis, had never seen him play live. The opportunity came when Miles was playing the Jazz Gallery in Greenwich Village, New York when Ramsey was ...

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Bruno’s Christmas Recital Revisited

Bruno’s Christmas Recital Revisited

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey

The pianist Jack Brownlow (1923-2007), known to his friends as Bruno, was a constant correspondent. Over the years, he stayed in touch by letter, postcard, telephone and recordings. At Christmas time he brightened the season for our family with music he taped at the grand piano in the living room of his house in Seattle. Just once, when we were living in New Orleans, he made his Christmas recording using the Fender-Rhodes electric piano. Something about that instrument invested his ...

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