Dr. Kathy Brown
Dr. Kathy Brown
Genres: The jazzy doctor from Jamaica
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About Dr. Kathy Brown
Kathy Brown is a standout Jamaican bred pianist, jazz instrumentalist, composer and a medical doctor is a Jamaica Music Award nominee for her debut CD Mission: A Musical Journey. Brown, popular in the Jamaican jazz circuit, has chalked up live performances at the Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival, Ocho Rios Jazz Festival, and Island Soul Festival (Toronto) and other Caribbean territories. Onstage the part-time medic delights with a repertoire that includes her signature Caribbean tinged, contemporary and standard jazz. Her first CD offers 9 tracks that includes own compositions (Mission, Latin Groove) and features clever interpretations of great works of jazz and reggae standards, such as Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage, and Bob Marley/Peter Tosh’s “Get Up, Stand Up”. The Kathy Brown set captures many of the influences on her personal journey from the classical and folk music of early life to the African and Latin music she collects in her travels to the US. Among the influences are Herbie Hancock, Joe Sample, Chick Corea, Chucho Valdes, Jamaica’s Monty Alexander, Kenny Barron, and Michel Camilo. Kathy Brown, founder & leader of the of the Kathy Brown & Friends band, categorizes her style of music as World [Beat]; music that people anywhere can appreciate. “It is not just jazz, reggae or pure anything, it is true crossover of different music style”. This world music style she hopes to take outside of Jamaica to places like New York, Canada, Europe, Japan and Africa. At age 5, little Katherine Brown, the daughter of University lecturers, was being tutored in classical and folk music on the piano at home in mid-island Jamaica. Growing up, that insatiable drive to master the instrument led Brown to pursue music as elective in High School (Jamaica) Ivy League College (USA) and during her medical studies at the University of the West Indies. As a composer, arranger Kathy Brown has melded jazz with particular indigenous forms reggae, Latin and afro-Brazilian music that shaped the synthesis of sound and style on her introductory CD. Official website: http://www.myspace.com/kathymbrown
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