Pud Brown

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Don't know if this is the right forum for this but just wanted to ask if anyone has ever heard of Pud Brown. He was a famous Jazz musician in New Orleans years ago. I think he died in 1995.

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Clarinetist and saxophonist Albert "Pud" Brown (http://www.pudbrown.com/) died of a heart attack at his home in Algiers, LA on May 27, 1996. He was 79. For the last 20 years of his life, Brown was a strong presence in traditional New Orleans jazz circles, but he learned to play in Shreveport, where he was raised, and later moved to Chicago and Los Angeles. He spent nearly 30 years as a professional jazz musician in Los Angeles, playing with Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Les Brown, Lawrence Welk and others. In 1975, Brown traveled to New Orleans for a brief engagement and decided to make the city his home.

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Clarinetist and saxophonist Albert "Pud" Brown (http://www.pudbrown.com/) died of a heart attack at his home in Algiers, LA on May 27, 1996. He was 79. For the last 20 years of his life, Brown was a strong presence in traditional New Orleans jazz circles, but he learned to play in Shreveport, where he was raised, and later moved to Chicago and Los Angeles. He spent nearly 30 years as a professional jazz musician in Los Angeles, playing with Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Les Brown, Lawrence Welk and others. In 1975, Brown traveled to New Orleans for a brief engagement and decided to make the city his home.

I knew him and his son John when I was a kid and never knew he was a known Jazz musician until recently.