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Banjoïste
Country US née 7 Août 1962 à Hartford (Connecticut).
Progressive bluegrass banjoist Alison Brown made her name not only as a
virtuosic instrumentalist, but as an accomplished, jazz-influenced composer, a
combination that earned plenty of comparisons to
Béla Fleck and David Grisman. Brown
began playing the banjo before reaching her teens and developed quickly, winning
numerous contests and even getting a chance to perform at the Grand Ole Opry.
She was also an excellent student, and temporarily left music to attend Harvard
University; following graduation, she worked as an investment banker for a
couple of years, but quit to pursue music. Brown gained her first wide exposure
as a member of Alison Krauss' Union
Station, covering the banjo slot from
Krauss' 1987 debut album through 1990. That year, she departed to record her
own debut, the entirely instrumental Simple Pleasures, for Vanguard, and
also spent some time as the musical director for folkie Michelle Shocked.
Brown's 1992 follow-up, Twilight Motel, was jazzier and more eclectic,
and 1994's Look Left displayed her increasing interest in world and
ethnic music. 1996's The Alison Brown Quartet refocused on her jazz
sensibility and found her switching to guitar on a few tracks; it was also her
last album before moving to the Compass imprint, for which she debuted in 1998
with Out of the Blue. 2000's Fair Weather featured a duo with
Béla Fleck on "Leaving Cottondale,"
which won Brown a Grammy for Best Country Instrumental. Her follow-up album,
Replay, was another of her jazzier outings. Brown sang about parenthood and
musicianship on Stolen Moments, which arrived in spring 2005. She
released Evergreen, a collection of holiday music with Joe Craven in
2007, followed by Company You Keep in 2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Brown
Talents : Banjo, Guitar, Songwriter, Record Producer
Style musical : Progressive Bluegrass / Traditional Bluegrass / Contemporary Bluegrass / New Acoustic
Years in activity :
| 1910 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 2000 | 10 | 20 |
DISCOGRAPHY
Albums
| 1990 | CD VANGUARD 79459 (US) |
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SIMPLE PLEASURES - Mambo Banjo / Leaving Cottondale / Fantasy / Daytime TV / Wolf Moon / From The Coast / Weetabix / Bright And Early / Waltzing With Tula / Reddy Rooster / Sundaze / Simple Pleasures |
| 1992 | CD VANGUARD 79465 (US) |
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TWILIGHT MOTEL - First Light / Lorelei / Twilight Motel / Blue Marlin / Saint Geneviève / Gods Of Brazil / Shoot The Dog / Pelican Bay / Chicken Road / Sweet Times Flow Softly |
| 1994 | CD VANGUARD 79477 (US) |
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LOOK LEFT - Étouffée Brutus? / View From Above / Look Left / Rain Again / The Red Earth / Deep North / The Dalai Camel / The Inspector / Cara's Way (The Little People) / Traveler's Rest |
| 1996 | CD VANGUARD 79486 (US) |
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ALISON BROWN QUARTET - G Bop / The Red Balloon / My Favorite Marsha / Mambo Banjo (Revisited) / Without Anastasia / Song Of Monterrey / Minding Rupert / The Wonderful Sea Voyage (Of Holy St. Brendan) / Hello Mendocino! / The Day Sweeps Back |
| 02/1998 | CD COMPASS 4248 (US) |
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OUT OF THE BLUE - Out Of The Blue / Dantes' Paradise / Coast Walk / Four For Launch / Road To Corossol / Mood Ring / Samba Del Sol / Sands Of Sound / Return To Pelican Bay / Rebel's Bolero |
| 09/1999 | CD Compass 7-4280-2 (US) |
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New Grange - Philip Aaberg, Darol Anger, Alison Brown, Mike Marshall, Tim O'Brien, Todd Phillips - Handsome Molly / Sally Ann / Under The Hood / Rock In A Weary Land / Cabin Waltz / Goin' To Boston / Weetabix / Round Trip / Stone Coal West Virginia / Shoot The Moon / Land's End / Music Tree |
| 05/2000 | CD COMPASS 4292 (US) |
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FAIR WEATHER - Late On Arrival / Fair Weather / Poe's Pickin' Party / Everyday I Write The Book / The Devil Wentdown To Berkeley / Hummingbird / Girl's Breakdown / Everybody's Talkin' / Dep Gap / Shake And Howdy / Leaving Cottondale / Sweet Thing |
| 01/2002 | CD COMPASS 4321 (US) |
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REPLAY - (Alison BROWN QUARTET) - Red Balloon / Lorelei / Late On Arrival / Daytime TV / My Favorite Marsha / Spiderman Theme / The Wonderful Sea Voyage (Of Holy St. Brendan) / Without Anastasia / The Inspector / Chicken Road / G Bop / Étouffée Brutus? / Shoot The Dog / Mambo Banjo / The Promise Of Spring |
| 02/2002 | CD VANGUARD 79709 (US) |
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BEST OF THE VANGUARD YEARS - Wolf Moon / Chicken Road / Without Anastasia / Mambo Banjo / Shoot The Dog / Cara's Way (The Little People) / G Bop / Waltzing With Tula / The Dalai Camel / Deep North / Saint Geneviève / Leaving Cottondale / Lorelei / Look Left / Hello Mendocino! / The Inspector / Simple Pleasures |
| 05/2005 | CD COMPASS 4400 (US) |
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STOLEN MOMENTS - The Sound Of Summer Running / The Magnificent Seven / Homeward Bound / The Pirate Queen / Carrowkeel / Angel / McIntyre Heads South / One Morning In May / (I'm Naked And I'm) Going To Glasgow / Prayer Wheel / Musette For A Palindrome |
| 06/2007 | CD VANGUARD 73146 (US) |
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VANGUARD VISIONARIES - Leaving Cottondale / Simple Pleasures / Wolf Moon / Shoot The Dog / Chicken Road / View From Above / Look Left / Cara's Way (The Little People) / G Bop / Without Anastasia |
| 08/2008 | CD COMPASS 974470 (US) |
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EVERGREEN - (Alison BROWN QUARTET & Joe CRAVEN) - Carol And The Kings : Carol Of The Bells - We Three Kings / Sleigh Ride / Two Santas : Here Comes Santa Claus - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town / Christmas Don't Be Late / O Carolan's - Welcome Christmas: O'Carolan's Farewell - Welcome Christmas / Skating - Feliz Navidad / Silver Bells / Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! / Christmas Time Is Here / The Little Drummer Boy / Christmas Don't Be Late |
| 03/2009 | CD COMPASS 974482 (US) |
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THE COMPANY YOU KEEP - Crazy Ivan / Rocket Summer / The Road West / Drawing Down The Moon / Under The (Five) Wire / Rain Or Shine / Over Nine Waves / Forky On The Water / The Clean Plate Club / Waltz For Mr. B |
| 10/2015 | CD COMPASS 7 4658 2 (US) (deluxe edition) |
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The Song Of The Banjo - The Song Of The Banjo / Dance With Me (featuring [with] - Rob Ickes) / Carolina In The Pines (featuring [with] - Indigo Girls) / A Long Way Gone / Windansea / Time After Time / Stuff Happens / I'll Never Fall In Love Again (featuring [with] - Colin Hay) / Airish / Feels So Good (featuring [with] - Jake Shimabukuro) / The Moon In Molly's Eyes / Musette For The Last Fret / Deluxe Edition Bonus Track : What's Going On? (featuring [with] - Keb' Mo') |
| 05/2023 | CD COMPASS COM 4788 2 (US) |
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On Banjo - Wind The Clock / Choro 'Nuff / Foggy Morning Breaking / Sweet Sixteenths / Sun And Water (Here Comes the Sun - Waters Of March) / Old Shatterhand / Regalito / Banjobim / Tall Hog At The Through / Porches |
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