Birth name Boyce Brown Name Boyce Brown Origin Chicago, Illinois Died January 30, 1959 | Occupation(s) Saxophonist Genres Jazz Instruments Alto saxophone Associated acts Wingy Manone | |
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Born April 10, 1910 ( 1910-04-10 ) Similar People George Wettling, Wild Bill Davison, Jimmy McPartland, Joe Marsala, Jess Stacy | ||
Boyce Brown (April 16, 1910 – January 30, 1959) was an American jazz dixieland alto saxophonist born in Chicago, Illinois.
Brown worked with Wingy Manone, Paul Mares and Danny Alvin. His best-known recordings are a 1935 session with Paul Mares and his Friars Society Orchestra and a 1939 session with Jimmy McPartland & his Jazz Band, which was first released as part of Decca's Chicago Jazz album. In both sessions, Brown demonstrates a driving, harmonically advanced style. In 1953 Brown entered a monastery, and returned in 1956 to release his one and only album as Brother Matthew, backed by a band organised by Eddie Condon.
Article about Boyce by Michael Steinman, from his blog 'Jazz Lives': http://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/blues-for-boyce/