Scoville "Toby" Browne was an American jazz

Jazz

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 reedist.

Browne played in the late 1920s with Junie Cobb

Junie Cobb

Junius C. "Junie" Cobb was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist and bandleader.Born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Cobb was competent on tenor saxophone, clarinet, banjo, piano, violin, and drums. He played with Johnny Dunn as a teenager, and after moving to Chicago he led his own ensemble in 1920-21...

's band and the Midnight Ramblers

Midnight Ramblers

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 in Chicago

Chicago

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; in 1931–32 he played saxophone and clarinet for Fred Avendorph. He worked with Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....

 from 1933–35, and in the mid- and late 1930s with Jesse Stone

Jesse Stone

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, Jack Butler

Jack Butler

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, Claude Hopkins

Claude Hopkins

Claude Driskett Hopkins was an American jazz stride pianist and bandleader.-Biography:Claude Hopkins was born in Alexandria, Virginia in 1903. Historians differ in respect of the actual date of his birth. His parents were on the faculty of Howard University...

, and Blanche Calloway

Blanche Calloway

Blanche Calloway was a Jazz singer, bandleader, and composer from Baltimore, Maryland. She is not as well known as her younger brother Cab Calloway, but she may have been the first woman to lead an all male orchestra. Cab Calloway often credited her with being the reason he got into show business...

. At the end of the decade he attended the Chicago College of Music. In the 1940s Browne played with Slim Gaillard

Slim Gaillard

Bulee "Slim" Gaillard was an American jazz singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist, noted for his vocalese singing and word play in a language he called "Vout"...

, Fats Waller

Fats Waller

Fats Waller , born Thomas Wright Waller, was a jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer...

, Buddy Johnson

Buddy Johnson

Not to be confused with Budd Johnson.Buddy Johnson was an American jazz and New York blues pianist and bandleader, active from the 1930s through the 1960s...

, Hot Lips Page, and Eddie Heywood

Eddie Heywood

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 before serving in the U.S. military during World War II

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. Following his discharge he played with Hopkins again and with Buck Clayton

Buck Clayton

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Browne worked as a bandleader on and off in the 1950s, and also studied classical music

Classical music

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. He played with Lionel Hampton

Lionel Hampton

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 and Muggsy Spanier

Muggsy Spanier

Francis Joseph Julian "Muggsy" Spanier was a prominent cornet player based in Chicago. He was renowned as the best trumpet/cornet in Chicago until Bix Beiderbecke entered the scene....

 late in the 1950s, and appears in the 1958 photograph A Great Day in Harlem

A Great Day in Harlem

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. Browne continued to do work with Hopkins into the 1970s. He never recorded as a bandleader.