Larry Browne

American Larry Browne started singing in 1982 in pop and dance bands, but after hearing the male vocal quartet “The Hi-Lo’s” one night, the necessity to sing jazz has ever since been crystal-clear. Studies in singing and music in the San Francisco Bay Area at Foothill and Chabot Junior Colleges formed his foundation, side-by-side with almost nightly forays into the local clubs to hear live jazz and participate in hundreds of jam-sessions. He met Mark Murphy and began ten years of intermittent studying with him.

In 1988 Larry moved to New York to immerse himself in its much larger music scene, continuing to participate in many jam-sessions, and studying at Columbia University, N. Y. City College, Long Island University and Boy’s Harbor. He played around the city in a variety of bands as frontman and sideman, ever expanding his repertoire of standards and jazz tunes and his own compositions. He met and became friends with Jimmy Scott, who produced Larry’s first CD “Swing Bean” in 1993; jammed with Clark Terry and Wynton Marsalis, Doc Cheatham, and Junior Cook, among countless others.

In 1999 Larry moved to Paris and quickly became accepted by musicians who hire him regularly as a featured soloist. His own quintet gains stature with its repertoire of Larry’s arrangements of standards and original compositions, documented by their 2003 release “Sweet and Lovely”( www.cdbaby.com ).

· See the “agenda” page at www.larrybrowne.com to find out where Larry will be performing next.·

Festivals In Europe : Colmar, 2005; Enghien-les-Bains, 2004; MeerVocal, Germany, 2004; Crest Jazz Vocal, 2004; Mâcon, 2004 ; Marciac, 2002 ; Jazz à Colmar, 2001 ; Enghien-les-Bains, 2000 ; JazzKaar, Estonie; Kaunas Jazz, Lituanie; Riga, Latvie, 1998 ; Jazz on the Blocks, Paris, 1996

In the U.S. : Teaching

JVC NewYork, 1997 IACP, Paris 2004-2006

Sun Valley Jamboree, 1996 & 1997 Ecole Koenig, Paris, winter 2006-07

Compact Disc Recordings:

“Larry Browne Sings Swing Bean”, produced by Jimmy Scott, 1993; “Larry Browne Sings & Plays”, 1999; “When we Meet Again”, with The Manhattan Vocal Project, 1995; “Glenn Miller Big Band”, DMP Records, with Manhattan Vocal Project, 1996; “Sweet and Lovely”, 2003

They said :

Tony Bennett : “ You should be in the movies too! ”

Jimmy Scott : “ You’re on the money ”

Mark Murphy : “ Not too many people have it together like you do . ”

Rex Reed : “ I want to say I discovered you. ”

Junior Cook: “Give it up ladies and gentelmen, this man just sang his guts out for you!”

Larry is a member of the Paris-based vocal octet “The Voice Messengers” new edition, since the spring of 2005. www.voicemessengers.com

· · He has held a trumpet chair in the big band at the conservatory of the 10e arrondissement in Paris since 2004