Ray Brown
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Oct 10, 2026
Kevin LawrenceHOST
The title track of his 1957 contemporary record-labeled album? That's the music of the great Sonny Rollins.
Kevin LawrenceHOST
Way Out West is the name of the song? Sonny Rollins on tenor sax, Ray Brown bass, Shelly Mann on drums.
Kevin LawrenceHOST
An all-star lineup indeed, I would say.
Kevin LawrenceHOST
Sonny Rollins was the writer of the jazz standards Olio, Doxy, and St. Thomas, among others.
Bill KingGUEST
The third floor, I'd be up in the studio.
Bill KingGUEST
I practiced all day I could, and on occasion, Ray Brown, the bass, great bass player, would walk in and bring his bass, and he would play with me and direct me through things.
Bill KingGUEST
Then at other times you'd go to classes with, where Oscar would teach.
Bill KingGUEST
And sometimes I, I, I'd, I'd catch him sitting down at the front desk and just sit down and talk to him, you know?
Gunnar BiggsPANELIST
Ron was definitely probably influenced by Oscar Pettiford.
Gunnar BiggsPANELIST
When I was just first starting to play, Ray Brown, Ron Carter were the two that I was told to listen to by the great bass player Bob Magnus.
Gunnar BiggsPANELIST
And he says, you've got to buy everything Ray Brown's on or Ron Carter.
Gunnar BiggsPANELIST
And I said, okay.
Gunnar BiggsPANELIST
Oscar Pettiford wasn't on the list for a while.
Gunnar BiggsPANELIST
So that was an interesting thing to pick up, that maybe they had picked up some more melodic ideas.
Gunnar BiggsPANELIST
But Oscar, you know, and Ron Carter both played cello, and Ron Carter did too.
Gunnar BiggsPANELIST
Ray Brown was another one that didn't play cello but was very influential to me in terms of his time playing and his note choices, things like that.
Norman GranzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, I would like to introduce the members of the first group, beginning with the drummer, Ed Thigpen.
Norman GranzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[audience applauding] In almost every country where there is an interest in jazz, the fans and the musicians, and even the critics, each year select the best people on the different instruments in jazz, and each year, the best bassist, practically everywhere in the world, is Ray Brown.
Norman GranzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[audience applauding] For years, everyone considered the great Art Tatum as the best pianist in jazz, and unfortunately, he died, and people looked for a successor.
Norman GranzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And today, I think most people will agree, certainly the musicians, that the best pianist in jazz is Oscar Peterson.
6 MINS LATER
Donald HelmeHOST
[jazz music][jazz music] A fairly rapturous reception there for the Oscar Peterson Trio.
Donald HelmeHOST
That was, um, "Cubano Chant," uh, from that Zurich concert, written by, in fact, his fellow pianist Ray Bryant.
Donald HelmeHOST
Well, let's move forward a bit to the year 1968, when Peterson made a series of recordings with the producer Hans-Georg Brunischwer with his, uh, then regular trio, which was Ray Brown on the bass and Ed Thigpen on the drums.
Donald HelmeHOST
This is "Tin Tin Deo," composed by, uh, Chano Pozo.
Reuben RogersHOST
Woo! Thank you.
Bob DeBooHOST
So that's the Ray Brown Trio with Monty Alexander on piano and Jeff Hamilton, the great Jeff Hamilton, on drums.
Bob DeBooHOST
They're playing a little St. Louis blues.
Bob DeBooHOST
But of course...
Chris JohnsonGUEST
Rufus Reed, I saw him about a year ago.
Chris JohnsonGUEST
Ray Brown.
Chris JohnsonGUEST
Helen Stevenson was my first teacher.
Chris JohnsonGUEST
from NEC Prep.
Robert MillerHOST
Why do you think it's not a typical jazz voice?
Tierney SuttonGUEST
Well, you know, early on when I first signed with Telarc Jazz, they set up a meeting an afternoon for me to spend an afternoon recording and getting advice from Ray Brown, the great jazz bass player.
Tierney SuttonGUEST
Now, I was, of course, shaking in my boots and I got all my charts together and I was all excited and I went down to the studio to play with him and I thought he was going to play with me.
Tierney SuttonGUEST
It turned out he said, no, I'm not going to play with play with you.
Drew SchlosbergHOST
[laughs]
Luke LittleGUEST
... or Ray Brown or anybody like that.
Luke LittleGUEST
So I think that's what keeps me grounded.
Luke LittleGUEST
And also, there's a couple of different cats on the scene that are not so kind and warm as Gilbert and Brian, um, which I think is for the better.
Michael FrankGUEST
Okay.
Michael FrankGUEST
Carl was a contemporary of Ahmad Jamal and Ray Brown and all those cats, but he never wanted to leave town and go on the road.
Michael FrankGUEST
And he started out playing vibes and sax, but he had one night in a club in the 50s, somebody in the audience fell into him while he was playing sax, and the sax went into his teeth and messed his teeth up, so he switched to piano.
Michael FrankGUEST
So Carl switched to piano, and by the time I knew him, he was playing piano.
Tavis SmileyHOST
I was saying the other day to some folk how much great music has been produced over the years that we never ever hear on radio so much great music we never hear and this is a classic dr west how are you sir oh yeah brother 1974 quincy
Cornel WestGUEST
jones ray brown the great jazz musician and first the husband of ella fitzgerald they produced his album brother body heat and everything must change you know that's from brother uh bernard eichner out
Tavis SmileyHOST
of houston sure oh
Cornel WestGUEST
he sang the song He did another album with Sarah Vaughan late in his life, but he's a giant who's often overlooked.
18 MINS LATER
Cornel WestGUEST
Thank you, Bernard.
Cornel WestGUEST
Thank you, Quincy.
Cornel WestGUEST
Thank you, Ray Brown.
Tavis SmileyHOST
And thank you, Cornel West.
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