Tyrone Brown

Tyrone Brown (born February 1, 1940 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz bassist and composer.

Brown studied orchestration and modern harmony at Boston's Berklee School of Music and was a student of the Philadelphia Orchestra's first cellist, Michael Shahan. He recorded about 125 albums as Sideman, including Max Roach, Odean Pope, Grover Washington Jr., Pat Martino, Bobby Zankel, Rachelle Ferrell , Cecil Bridgewater and Dave Burrell .

With a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1983 he produced a video about the performance of his own original composition. In 1993 and 1994 he received the Reader's Prize of Jazz Philadelphia Magazine for best bassist of the year.

In 1996 he gave a solo concert at the 25th Moers Festival. In 1999, he performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra under André Raphael Smith Duke and Mercer Ellington's suite For The Three Black Kings. Since 2002 he has collaborated with choreographer Germaine Ingram on several dance and music projects.

Brown also directs the Tyrone Brown String Sextet with which he toured and recorded two albums (Song of the Sun and Emerald Valley). On behalf of the University of Rochester, the suite for John A. Williams, which he composed in 2005 and recorded on CD. Brown also gave master classes in Barcelona and Jerusalem and improvisational symposia at Brigham Young University, Illinois State University and Temple University.

• Out of the box, 1997
• Song of the Sun with John Blake, Nina Cottman , William Wilson , Melissa Ortega , 1999
• Suite for John A. Williams with Nina Cottman, Ronald Lipscomb, Adam Williams, Bobby Zankel , 2005
• Between Midnight and Dawn with John Blake, Nina Cottman, Bill Jones, Ronald Lipscomb, Jimmy Miller, Duke Wilson, 2005
• Emerald Valley, 2005
• Moon of the Falling Leaves, 2008, with Randy Sutin, John Blake, Melissa Locati, Beth Dwzil, Michael Ireland, Ron Lipscomb, Craig McIver, Jim Miller, William "Duke" Wilson, Daoud Shaw, Pheralyn Dove