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During the 1980's Mel was a member of the house band at Antone's night club, in Austin, Texas, and toured with The Silent Partners. The Silent partners recorded one album, which is available from Antones Records.
Mel Brown and the Homewreckers released their first album, “Live at Wally's” in the fall of 1998 which was recently re-released on the Electro-Fi label in 2002.
In 2001, Mel Brown and the Homewreckers released "Neck Bones & Caviar" which was awarded the W.C. Handy Award for the "Best Comeback Album of the Year" and was also nominated for a Juno award for "Best Blues Album of the Year" in Canada.
In addition to the work with the Homewreckers, Mel Brown has released a number of albums with Snooky Pryor including "Double Shot," "Snooky Pryor and the Mississippi Wrecking Crew," and most recently, the Snooky Pryor Live album, "Mojo Ramble" featuring Mel Brown and the Homewreckers.
In January of 2004, Mel Brown was awarded the Maple Blues "Blues with a Feeling" (Toronto Blues Society Lifetime Acheivement) Award.
Mel Brown released another solo album ”Homewreckin’ Done Live,” and in 2006 he released “Blues - A Beautiful Thing.” A DVD “Mel Brown The Blues, ” generated a lot of buzz, as well as an album with vocalist Miss Angel. "That's the Way I Tumble.”
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Mel Brown Quartet: Girl Talk
by Stephen Latessa
The notes on the back cover of Girl Talk, the new disc from the Mel Brown Quartet, proudly proclaim that the band has over 100 years of collective experience. Indeed, an easy, lived-in approach defines the ten tracks on the album. It is the work of veterans whose professionalism yields consistently solid results. The musicians--Mel Brown (drums), Dan Balmer (guitar), Ed Bennett (bass), and Tony Pacini (piano)--are all bandleaders in their own right. Based in Portland, Oregon, the band came ...
read moreMel Brown: Chicken Fat
by David Rickert
When you get a couple of guitar players together you’re often going to get the kind of finger-busting interplay heard on Chicken Fat ; the question is whether it will be interesting enough to listen to or too self-indulgent. For the most part, Mel Brown succeeds in creating a pleasant piece of soul jazz that, on occasion, ventures into straightforward blues tunes.
There’s plenty of guitar solos on this 1967 record, and Brown takes an edgy, almost haphazard ...
read morePortland Jazz Saxophonist Michael York, Who Played with Mel Brown Sextet, Dies at 55
Source:
Seattle Jazz Scene
from The Oregonian:
Michael York, one of the Portland jazz scene's most accomplished saxophonists who spent a decade as a featured member in the Mel Brown Sextet, died Monday morning, less than two weeks after being diagnosed with cancer.
Dusty York, the musician's son and a prominent Portland saxophonist himself, said that his father had been feeling ill and thought he might have a gallstone, but doctors instead found cancer that had originated in his lungs and spread to his ...
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Drummer Mel Brown Releases / Girl Talk
Source:
All About Jazz
For Immediate Release Contact: Ed Bennett Saphu Records 503-788-0672 [email protected] Mel Brown Quartet Girl Talk" If mainstream jazz is your bag, the Mel Brown Quartet brings you bop, ballads and scintillating originals making you gald you have ears. With over 100 years of collective experience, here's a group that knows the tradition and brings it boldly to the bandstand on every gig. The Mel Brown Quartet came together in the fall of 2002 at Jimmy Mak's, a popular jazz club ...
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New Don Lanphere Recording featuring Mimi Fox, Banrey MacClure & Mel Brown
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All About Jazz
Northwest saxophonist Don Lanphere has a new recording feature jazz guitar great Mimi Fox, Barney McClure on B3 and Mel Brown on drums. The recording is called Like A Bird and is on Origin Arts. Here is part of the liner notes.
I will admit that when Don initially called me and said I just did something new for me, a Hammond B-3 organ date, and I really want you to write the liner notes," I kinda froze. When I ...
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