Six Brown Brothers

Six Brown Brothers

The Six Brown Brothers were a Canadian vaudeville era saxophone sextet consisting of six brothers. The brothers were, William, Tom (1881 - 1950), Alec, Percy, Fred and Vern Brown. The Brown Brothers lived in Lindsay, Ontario until 1893. The first instrumentation consisted of a saxophone quintet (bass, baritone, tenor, and 2 alto saxes. A soprano sax was never used with the group, except as a feature for Tom Brown). But in 1913, they added a second baritone sax. Success in 1912-14 lead to touring to Scotland and elsewhere in Europe. Additional, non-family, members also played with the group.

After they broke up in 1933 only the leader, Tom Brown continued as a musician but with limited success.

External links

* [http://www.redhotjazz.com/6brownbrothers.html Six Brown Brothers on RedHotJazz website]
* [http://www.archeophone.com/product_info.php?products_id=47 Six Brown Brothers: Those Moaning Saxophones (Archeophone Records 6002)]
* [http://media.libsyn.com/media/bigband/bigband147.mp3 Listen: The Six Brown Brothers in a 1918 recording of When Aunt Dinah's Daughter Bangs on the Piano begins Big Band Serenade podcast 147; Brother Groups Part 1]


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