Alex Brown: News

My new CD entitled "Paquito Presents Alex Brown - Pianist" is being released on August 3 on Paquito Records. It features many great musicians including Paquito D'Rivera on alto sax and clarinet, Warren Wolf on marimba, Vivek Patel on trumpet, Ben Williams on bass, Eric Doob on drums, and Pedro Martinez on percussion.

Check out the new recording on Sony Classical entitled "Mi Alma Mexicana (My Mexican Soul)" by Alondra De La Parra and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas. I am featured on Eugenio Toussaint's "Concerto for Improvised Piano: II."

I'm featured in the January 2010 edition of KEYBOARD Magazine. Check it out, it hits newsstands this week!

Paquito D'Rivera's newest CD, "Jazz Clazz," which I am a part of, just received a GRAMMY nomination. For a full list of nominees visit www.grammy.com

Check out our recent concert recorded at NJPAC on October 31 with Paquito D'Rivera and his Cuban band. http://www.wbgo.org/ontheair/ondemand/

Check out the podcast of Jazz Northwest broadcast of Port Townsend Jazz Festival concert with Paquito D'Rivera and Alex Brown

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The group LaTimbistica won Downbeat's Student Music Award for Best College Group this year! I am very proud to be a part of the group, which is led by a great friend of mine and a great musician, Paulo Stagnaro.

I am thrilled and honored that I am now the pianist with nine-time Grammy-award-winner Paquito D'Rivera! We will be performing all over the country and internationally as well.

I'm very excited to announce that I won for best Jazz Soloist in this year's Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards! You can see all of the winners in the June 2007 issue.

I was selected by Sonicbids to have my EPK spotlighted on their main page for the entire week of April 9th! Check it out at www.sonicbids.com/AlexBrownMusic

Alex's second CD as a leader, "Montrose Towing," has been released. The CD features John Britton on trumpet, Will R. Anderson on alto sax, Peter R. Anderson on tenor sax, Alex Hoffman on tenor sax, Joe McDonough on trombone, Pepe Gonzalez on bass, and Allison Miller on drums.

Alex Brown has garnered an "Outstanding Award" from Downbeat Magazine for his arrangement of the traditional Jewish song, "Kol Han'shama." This Afro-Cuban Jazz adaptation can be heard on his CD, "Montrose Towing."