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Ray Brown

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Year of Birth:1926
Year of death:2002

Biography

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American jazz bassist Ray Brown (1926-2002) played with many greats, such as Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Sinatra and Oscar Peterson. Brown started taking piano lessons at the age of eight, but was assigned a double bass in the school orchestra. At the age of 20, he moved to New York, where he was hired by Dizzy Gillespie. He played in his band from 1946 to 1951, with Milt Jackson (vibraphone), Kennymore

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