He also met Ornette Coleman and Archie Shepp, and introduced Shepp to Baraka. He was a very beautiful and very smart person.' LeRoi Jones opened the door for me he introduced me to the world. According to Brown, 'The writers who listened to me and liked my playing, they inspired me to be better, and I inspired them to keep listening. In 1962, Brown left Howard and moved to New York City, where he befriended a number of musicians, as well as writers such as Amiri Baraka (then known as LeRoi Jones), who was also a Howard drop-out, and A. During this time, he began listening to musicians such as John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and Archie Shepp, all of whom he would soon meet and come to know. After graduating, he moved to Washington, DC, where he enrolled at Howard University's law school. In 1956, he returned to Atlanta and enrolled at Clark College, where he studied music, taking lessons from Wayman Carver. During his three-year enlistment, he played alto saxophone, clarinet, and baritone saxophone, and was stationed in Hokkaido for some time. He left high school in the 10th grade and joined the army. He began studying the saxophone at an early age, inspired by Charlie Parker. AllMusic reviewer Scott Yanow described him as 'one of the brightest and most lyrical voices of the 1960s avant-garde.' Biography Early life īrown, the grandson of an escaped slave from Georgia's Sea Islands, was born in Atlanta in 1931 and was raised by a single mother. He performed on Coltrane's landmark 1965 album Ascension. He was a member of the avant-garde jazz scene in New York City during the 1960s, playing alongside musicians such as John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, and John Tchicai. Marion Brown (Septem – October 18, 2010) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, writer, visual artist, and ethnomusicologist.

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