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Donald Brown

Jazz pianist Donald Brown was born in Desoto, Mississippi, on March 28, 1954. After honing his skills at college in Memphis, where he switched his primary instrument from trumpet to piano, he served a brief stint in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers (alongside Wynton and Branford Marsalis), and from there on out pursued simultaneous careers as an educator and as a musician. Shortly after their time together in the Jazz Messengers, Wynton Marsalis recorded Brown’s composition “Insane Asylum”, which was nominated for a Best Jazz Instrumental Performance (Soloist) in 1986. By the mi...