This welcome historical twofer is comprised of two very fine trio recordings, each with Ray Brown and Gene Harris and each using a different drummer. The Red Hot Ray Brown Trio (Concord, 1987) ...
For the fifth in his Some of My Best Friends Are... series, master bassist Ray Brown has chosen guitar players as his playing companions. Joining Brown and his trio are six select string men running ...
Now 75, Ray Brown just keeps doing what he’s done for the past 50 years, ever since he helped create the modern sound of jazz bass on recordings by Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, and the Milt Jackson ...