Raymond Harry Brown

Raymond Harry "Ray" Brown (born November 7, 1946) is an American composer, arranger, trumpeter, and jazz educator. Brown also contributed arrangements for Kenton, including "Mi Burrito" and "Neverbird". the Lake Tahoe Music Festival, and jazz venues in the San Francisco Bay area.

Early career 1968–71: arranger and trumpet player for the Studio Band of the United States Army Field Band, Fort Meade, Maryland (b. 1949, New York), is a violist and is married to cellist Daniel Levitov. Karin earned degrees in music from Oberlin Conservatory of Music (1998) and Juilliard. Daniel is a member of the preparatory faculty at the Peabody Institute.

Ray, born 1946 in Oceanside, New York, grew up in Freeport, New York. He has three older brothers, Glenn Edward Brown (1937–2007), Stephen Charles Brown, Roger V. Brown and a younger sister, Jeanne De Martino. Glenn taught music for 28 years. Steve is a jazz guitarist, bassist, drummer, composer, and arranger. For 45 years, Steve was professor of music and director of jazz studies at the Ithaca College School of Music (retired 2008). One of Steve's many life achievements is that he formalized jazz studies in 1968 at Ithaca College School of Music, a long-standing, well-known music institution within a well-known liberal arts college that was founded in 1892 solely as a conservatory of music. Roger, a civil engineer, played bass. He did two tours with Astrud Gilberto. Jeanne, a pre-school teacher, played flute.

Glenn, Steve, and Ray all earned music degrees from Ithaca College – Steve: Bachelor of Music (1964) and a Master of Music (1968); Ray: Bachelor of Music (1968). Ray's nephew (Steve's son) – Miles Brown – is a jazz bassist, performer, and music educator.

Ray's father, Glenn Earl Brown (1914–1965; trumpet, fluegel horn; Melvin Wanzo, Booty Wood, Dennis Wilson, trombone; Bill Hughes, bass trombone; Bobby Plater, Danny Turner, Eric Dixon, Kenny Hing, reeds; Charlie Fowlkes, baritone sax; Count Basie, Paul Smith, piano; Freddie Green, guitar; John Clayton, acoustic double bass; Butch Miles, drums; Ella Fitzgerald, Dennis Roland, vocal

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