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Leonard
Brown
Dr.
Leonard Brown is a professional musician (saxophonist, composer,
and arranger), teacher, ethnomusicologist and specialist in multicultural
education. During his thirty plus years as a performing musician,
he has appeared with many outstanding artists including Alice Coltrane,
Pharoah Sanders, George Russell, Bill Barron, Yusef Lateef, Alan
Dawson, and Ed Blackwell. He has performed nationally with his group
"JOYFUL NOISE"and is co-founder and producer of Boston's
annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert. Established in 1977, this
yearly performance tribute to the Coltrane legacy is the oldest
event of its kind in the world.
Dr.
Brown is an associate professor at Northeastern University in Boston
with a joint appointment in the Music and African American Studies
Departments. He has served as chair of African American Studies
and Head Advisor for Music. Along with his academic responsibilities
and endeavors, Brown serves as principal consulting ethnomusicologist
and cultural historian to the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City,
MO, the first national jazz museum in the nation, where he also
developed and served as director of the Kansas City Institute for
Jazz Performance and History, a free summer educational program
for youth age 10-18. Brown also functions as developer and organizer
for the Charlie Parker Symposium held in March at the American Jazz
Museum in Kansas City, MO and he was principal contributor to the
book "Kansas City..And All That's Jazz" (1999), a history of the
Kansas City jazz legacy published by Andrews McMeel.
Professor
Brown has received postdoctoral fellowship support from the Ford
Foundation and is currently involved in researching African American
music history in the United States. In 1992, he received a Distinguished
Scholar award from the University of Massachusetts/Boston and served
as Black Scholar-In-Residence at Fairfield University in CT. In
1994, Brown was an invited member of a research team composed of
scholars and musicians that visited Cuba for academic presentations
on "Social and Cultural Transformation in Cuba and the United
States". In 1998, Brown received the Distinguished Scholar
Award from the John D. O'Bryant African American Institute at Northeastern
University. He is a member of the Center for Black Music Research,
the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, the
International Association of Jazz Educators, the Society for Ethnomusicology,
and the Sonneck Society of American Music.
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Email
Leonard Brown
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Phone:
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(617)
373-4128 |
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Office:
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Ryder
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Fax:
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(617)
373-4129 |
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Leonard Brown
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