Biography
Albert J. Brown, 22 January 1917, Wilmington, Delaware, USA, d. 27 May 1996, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Born into a musical family, at the age of five he was performing with the Brown Family Band where he was billed as The World’s Youngest Saxophone Player. The band toured widely, eventually folding in 1933, but he continued working in pit and territory bands across the USA. He was resident in Chicago for a while and also worked on the west coast, playing with many distinguished musicians including Jimmy Dorsey, Pete Daily, Jack Teagarden and Kid Ory. Apart from a five-year spell running a motorcycle repair shop in Shreveport, Louisiana, Brown was active in music throughout his long life. Usually playing clarinet, but equally adept on tenor saxophone, or, when the spirit moved him, on trumpet and cornet, he favoured traditional music and had a deep-seated love affair with the music of New Orleans. In the early 70s Brown returned to...
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