Rob Brown
Rob Brown is “one of the most talented musicians playing in the avant-garde” (The New York Times). He was born in Hampton, Virginia in 1962, and has been playing the saxophone since the age of eleven. He moved to New York City in 1984, and since then has been actively leading groups or working as a sideman with Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Joe Morris, Whit Dickey, and many others. Rob has performed and/or recorded with Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Denis Charles, Bill Dixon, Butch Morris, Reggie Workman, Henry Grimes, Roy Campbell Jr.,Hamid Drake and Fred Hopkins, as well as various dance groups, poets, and performance artists. He has toured Europe extensively. He is a 2001 CalArts/Alpert/Ucross Residency Prize winner and has received many Meet The Composer Fund grants and a Chamber Music America New Works grant in 2006. “A fiercely original voice”
Rob Brown 4tet - Live at Vision Fest XV - Marge 48
Rob Brown Trio w/Craig Taborn and Nasheet Waits - Unknown Skies RogueArt ROG33
Rob Brown Daniel Levin Duo - Natural Disorder - NotTwo MW 844-2
Rob Brown Trio - Daniel Levin, Satoshi Takeishi -Live at Firehouse12 NotTwo
Rob Brown Ensemble - William Parker, Craig Taborn, Gerald Cleaver - Crown Trunk Root Funk - AUM Fidelity 44
Rob Brown & Andrew Barker Duo - Live In Chicago - Ruby Red
Right Hemisphere - Matthew Shipp, Joe Morris and Whit Dickey - RogueArt
Rob Brown Trio with Satoshi Takeishi, Daniel Levin, SOUNDS - Clean Feed
Rob Brown Quartet - Radiant Pools – RogueArt CDs
Rob Brown Quartet - The Big Picture - Marge CDs
The Diplomats w/Eisenstadt S. Swell We Are Not Obstinate Islands -Cleanfeed
Stone House with Joe Morris and Luther Gray, Likewise - Riti CDs
Rob Brown Solo Saxophone, Silver Sun Afternoon - NoLabels CDs
Rob Brown Trio - W. Parker, Warren Smith, Round the Bend -Bleu Regard CDs
Rob Brown Quartet, Jumping Off the Page - No More CDs
Rob Brown Trio with Wilber Morris and Lou Grassi, Visage - Marge CDs
Rob Brown Duo with Matthew Shipp, Blink of an Eye - No More no.3
Rob Brown Trio - William Parker, Jackson Krall High Wire - Soul Note
Rob Brown-Lou Grassi Quartet, Scratching the Surface - CIMP CD
Joe Morris-Rob Brown Quartet, Illuminate - Leo Lab CD108
Rob Brown, Heinz Geisser, Geurrino B. Mazzola, Orbit -Music and Arts
Rob Brown, Whit Dickey, Joe Morris - Youniverse - Riti CD3
Rob Brown Trio - Breath Rhyme - Silkheart CD122
Rob Brown and Matthew Shipp, Sonic Explorations Cadence - CJR103
Oles Brothers with Rob Brown - Live at SJC - Phenommedia CD
Planet Dream w/Steve Swell and Daniel Levin - Clean feed CD
William Parker Quartet - Petit Oiseau - AUM
William Parker Sextet - Cornmeal Dance - AUM
William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune - AUM
William Parker Quartet, Oneal's Porch Centering CD, AUM Fidelity
William Parker Quartet, Sound Unity - Aum Fidelity
William Parker/Raining on The Moon, Cornmeal Dance - AUM Fidelity 43
William Parker, It's Raining On The Moon - Thirsty Ear CDs
In Order to Survive, Posium Pendasum - FMP
In Order to Survive, The Peach Orchard - AUM 010/11
William Parker Sextet, In Order To Survive - Black Saint 120159-2
William Parker, In Order to Survive, Compassion... Homestead
William Parker and The Little Huey Orchestra, Flowers... Centering CD
William Parker and The Little Huey Orchestra, Sunrise... AUM Fidelity
William Parker and Little Huey Raincoat in the River - Eremite
The Little Huey Orchestra, The Mayor of Punkville AumFidelity CD
Matthew Shipp-Rob Brown-William Parker, Magnetism - Bleu Regard
Matthew Shipp Quartet, Points - Silkheart SHCD129
Whit Dickey Quartet, Bigtop - Wobbly Rail CDs
Whit Dickey Trio, Transonic AumFidelity CD
Nommonsemble Whit Dickey, Mat Maneri, Matt Shipp - Lifecycle - AUM
Joe Morris-Rob Brown-Karen Borca-Andrea Parkins, Many Rings - KnitWorks
Alan Silva With The Sound Vision Orchestra - Eremite CDs
Anthony Braxton, Trillium R - Braxton House
Anthony Braxton, Library of Congress - Braxton House
Assif Tsahar's Brass Reeds Ensemble, The Hollow World - Hopscotch CDs
Chris Dahlgren's Best Intentions - Koch CDs
William Parker’s Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra - “For Percy Heath” Victo CDs
William Parker’s Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra - “Essence of Ellington” live in Milano Centering CDs
William Parker Quartet - “Wood Flute Songs” Anthology / Live 2006-2012 AUM Fidelity