Marion Brown

alto saxophone, clarinet · 1931–2010 · Atlanta

Avant-garde alto saxophonist and ethnomusicologist, active in New York in the 1960s and heard on Coltrane's Ascension. He is known for a trilogy of albums inspired by Jean Toomer's writings on his native Georgia.

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Styles

• Free jazz
• ECM and European jazz

Landmark tracks

• Afternoon of a Georgia Faun (1970)

Sources

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