Six Brown Brothers
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The Six Brown Brothers were a Canadian vaudeville era saxophone
sextet consisting of six brothers. The brothers were, William, Tom (1881–1950), Alec, Percy, Fred and Vern Brown. The Brown Brothers lived in Lindsay
, Ontario
until 1893. The first instrumentation consisted of a saxophone quintet (bass, baritone, tenor, and 2 alto saxes. A soprano sax was never used with the group, except as a feature for Tom Brown). But in 1913, they added a second baritone sax. Success in 1912-14 lead to touring to Scotland and elsewhere in Europe. Additional non-family members also played with the group.
After they broke up in 1933 only the leader, Tom Brown, continued as a musician but with limited success.
Saxophone
The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
sextet consisting of six brothers. The brothers were, William, Tom (1881–1950), Alec, Percy, Fred and Vern Brown. The Brown Brothers lived in Lindsay
Lindsay, Ontario
Lindsay is a community of 19,361 people on the Scugog River in the Kawartha Lakes region of south-eastern Ontario, Canada. It is approximately west of Peterborough...
, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
until 1893. The first instrumentation consisted of a saxophone quintet (bass, baritone, tenor, and 2 alto saxes. A soprano sax was never used with the group, except as a feature for Tom Brown). But in 1913, they added a second baritone sax. Success in 1912-14 lead to touring to Scotland and elsewhere in Europe. Additional non-family members also played with the group.
After they broke up in 1933 only the leader, Tom Brown, continued as a musician but with limited success.
External links
- Six Brown Brothers on RedHotJazz website
- http://www.archeophone.com/product_info.php?products_id=47Six Brown Brothers: Those Moaning Saxophones (Archeophone RecordsArcheophone RecordsArcheophone Records, LLC, based in Champaign, Illinois, specializes in preserving recordings of the acoustic era of the recording industry by remastering phonograph cylinders and gramophone records from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and releasing them on compact disc...
6002)] - Listen: The Six Brown Brothers in a 1918 recording of When Aunt Dinah's Daughter Bangs on the Piano begins Big Band Serenade podcast 147; Brother Groups Part 1
- Jay Easton History