WELCOME! Students of Jazz
Prepare to enter the realm of the
World Renown Dixieland Jazz Musician
Clarinetist and saxophonist Albert "Pud" Brown died of a heart attack at his
home in Algiers, LA on May 27, 1996. He was 79. For the last 20 years of his life,
Brown was a strong presence in traditional New Orleans jazz circles, but he
learned to play in Shreveport, where he was raised, and later moved to
Chicago and Los Angeles. He spent nearly 30 years as a professional jazz
musician in Los Angeles, playing with Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins,
Les Brown, Lawrence Welk and others. In 1975, Brown traveled to New
Orleans for a brief engagement and decided to make the city his home.
Pud Does It Again
In Hollywood at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, 1951, after the Les Brown, Louis Armstrong and Pud Brown concert Louis returns to the stage and Pud and Louis spontaneously jam.
If you have any stories, music, photos, or anything about Pud you would like to share, please Email them to me or contact me for mailing address: Pud's son, John Brown.
Pud Rescues Satchmo from Mob
In the '30's, while Pud was living in Shreveport, he had a guest staying at his house but he was not the usual guest. Evading the Mob in Chicago, Louis Armstrong had fled to Louisiana to hide out. It was not know where Satchmo hid out, but now thanks to Joe E. Holland, he sheds some light on the story.
Pud grew up in a family band on the road traveling from city to city, town to town in a large truck converted into a house car playing to audiences in parks or whereever they could. While at the Sacramento Jazz Fest Pud meets the Coulson Family who are following in the same American tradition of a family band traveling on the road, and here is their story.
The Crescent City is best known for jazz, which made some of its most significant advances here --thanks to music pioneers like Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong, Buddy Bolden, King Oliver and Jellyroll Morton. Traditional jazz is alive and healthy today, several generations later, fostered at establishments such as Preservation Hall and the Palm Court Cafe by musicians like the Percy Humphrey, Wendell Brunious, Pud Brown
and Dr. Michael White.
Performers: Clancy Hayes - vox; Pud Brown - clarinet; Jess Stone - piano; Bob Short - tuba; Shelly Manne - drums.
Pud played with musicains such as
• Snoozer Quinn •
Wingy Manone •
Ernie Carson •
Bob Haggart •
Eddie Miller •
Yank Lawson •
Joe Venuti •
Jack Teagarden •
Charlie Teagarden •
Norma Teagarden •
Benny Goodman •
Dick Cary •
Abe Most •
Les Brown •
Louis Armstrong •
Shelly Manne •
Peanuts Hucko •
Billy Butterfield •
Nappy Lamare •
Pete Daily •
Ray Bauduc •
Bill Campbell •
Charlie Lodice •
Tommy Gekler •
Barrett Deems •
Les Muscutt •
George Ball •
Kid Ory •
Freddie Walters •
Archie Lorant •
Jimmy Burrage •
bob Havens •
Monty budwig •
Ward Kimball •
Bud Freeman •
Pee Wee Russell •
Burt Johnson •
Warren Smith •
Joe Darensbourg •
Jackie Coon •
Zutty Singleton •
Bruce MacDonald •
Jess Stacy •
Urbie Green •
Kid Thomas •
Walter Payton •
Cliff Jackson •
Tab Garmly •
Davie Quinton •
Steve Pistorious •
Pete Pepke •
Kid Sheik •
Monte Mont Joy •
Wild Bill Davison •
Bob Scoby •
Ubie Blake •
Danny Barker •
Chris Clifton •
Herb Garner •
Red Nichols Five Pennies •
Jean Simmons •
Teddy Buckner •
Bob Havens •
Jess Stacy •
Hank Castro •
Pete Urqurdi •
Nappy Lamare •
Strawhat Seven •
Joe Graves •
Brad Gowans •
Johnny Costello •
Jack Peoples •
Budd Hatch •
Roy Harte •
Tim Herbez •
Duke Heitger •
Scott Black •
John Thomas •
Jerry Boquet •
Louis RED Morgan •
Layton Martens •
Mike Owen •
Alton Carson •
Lous Cottrell •
Frank Oxley •
E.C. Martens •
Bob Walters •
John Brunious •
Topsy Chapman •
Sweet Emma Barrett •
Jimmy Ille •
Connie Jones •
George Finola •
Lawrence Welk •
Pete Fountian •
Coleman Hawkins •
Ray Linn •
Lionel Ferbos •
Paul Crawford •
Chris Tyle •
Al Bernard •
Wex Mix •
Pud's record Co.
Delta King, West Craft & New Orleans Jazz Recording Co.
List of albums Pud is on
Spirit Of New Orleans Brass Band
Doc Cheatham and Sammy Price in New Orleans with Lars Edegran's Jazz Band
Father Al Lewis with Lars Edegran's jazz band
Pud Brown Plays Clarinet
Pud Brown and his New Orleans Jazzmen Palm Court Strut
New Orleans Dixieland Banjo featuring Les Muscutt
From New Orleans Sylvia Kuumba Williams
Clancy Hayes Swinging Minstrel
Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band
Creole Jazz Band at Club Hangover
Raid The Juke Box
Louis and His Friends
A Salute to Louis Armstrong
Just a Little While with Aline White and Magnolia Jazz Band
Chris Clifton and his All Stars Memories of a Friend
