Maurice Brown

Although he was surrounded by music growing up in Illinois, Maurice Brown did not pick up the trumpet until high school. After earning praise from Wynton Marsalis in a seminar when he was 16, Brown’s music took a more serious direction. While pursuing jazz studies at Northern Illinois University, Maurice came under the wing of Clark Terry who took him on tour in Europe and aboard the QE3. Next Brown studied with Alvin Batiste at Southern University in Baton Rouge, performed at the Blue Note in New York with Elvin Jones, and, in 2001, won the National Miles Davis Trumpet Competition. Now 26, Brown has recorded with Curtis Fuller, Fred Anderson, Roy Hargrove, and Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizons. His debut recording, Hip To Bop, was released in 2004. Notes Curtis Fuller, “I know for a fact that Maurice Brown has the most promise of all the trumpeters out there: I say this because I played with Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard when they were his age, and I see that promise in Brown." Brown relocated from New Orleans to New York after Hurricane Katrina.

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Feb 9 , 2007 @ 7:30 PM
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5610 W. Lake St

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