STEVE BROWN
Genres: Post-Fusion Contemporary, Post Bop, Hard Bop • United States

Guitarist, composer, arranger, Steve Brown, is a professor of music and the director of the jazz studies program at Ithaca College. He has four recordings available under his own leadership, Good Lines and Child’s Play both on Café records, and Night Waves and Crossroads on his own Brown Cats Productions. He is also coauthor with Ray Brown of an instructional book and recording entitled An Introduction To Jazz Improvisation. He has recorded with Chuck Israels’ National Jazz ensemble, Chuck Mangione, and The California big band, Full,Faith,and Credit. His writing projects have included commissioned works for The Hal Galper Trio and the Airmen of Note, the Ithaca Ageless Jazz Band, the Celebration of The Arts Jazz Festival (C.O.T.A. Cats) featuring himself and Phil Woods, and a piece for the Harvard University Band. Other releases as a guitarist/arranger under the leadership of Steve Gilmore, include four compact discs, I’m All Smiles, Silhouette, read more...