By Virginia DeBerry
The New Brunswick Jazz Project-bringing great jazz to Central Jersey, presents
The Chris Brown Quartet
Chris Brown – Drums
Alex Colllins – Piano
Craig Handy – Saxes
Yasushi Nakamura – Bass
October 7, 2010, 7.30-10.30PM
Makeda, 338 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ
No Cover
Chris Brown, son of former Motown drummer Mel Brown, was playing both drums and sax by the age of eleven and his jazz trio was awarded DownBeat Magazine’s “Best High School Instrumental Group.” During his four years of active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps, Chris built his musical skills and met and worked with local artists wherever he was assigned, including the legendary Marsalis family in New Orleans. Chris has performed with Buddy Defranco and Terry Gibbs, the Roy Hargrove, Benny Golson, Ralph Bowen, Charles Fambrough, Onaje Allen Gumbs, Gerald Clayton, Paul Bollenback, Ron Affif, John Stubblefield, Darren Barrett, Sean Jones, Frank Lacey, John Benitez, Lonnie Plaxico, Carla Cook, Rosana Vitro, Essiest Essiet, Don Braden, Antonio Hart, Kenny Davis, Ronnie Matthews and many others. A former marine, Brown currently holds down a post as the principle saxophonist in the N.J. Army National Guard Band, as well as a position as both a Professor of Jazz History and the assistant director of the Rutgers Summer Jazz Institute at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.
Chris will be joined on October 7, by the legendary Craig Handy on saxophones, Alex Collins on piano and Yashushi Nakamura on bass.
For more information: http://nbjp.org |Mike @ 732.640.0001| Email: [email protected]

