Patti Bown

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Patti Bown (July 26, 1931,

Seattle, Washington – March 21, 2008, Media, Pennsylvania) was an American jazz
pianist, composer, and singer.

Early life and career

Bown was born in Seattle, the daughter of Augustus Bown and Edith Ruth Cahill Brown. She began playing piano at age two. Her sister Edith Bown Valentine was a classical pianist; another sister, Millie Bown Russell, became known for her work on diversity in STEM education.

Bown studied piano while attending the University in Seattle on a music scholarship. She played in local orchestras toward the end of the 1940s. From 1956, she worked as a soloist in New York City, playing early on in sessions with

Harry Sweets Edison. Her musical compositions were recorded by Sarah Vaughan, Benny Golson, and Duke Ellington. She also recorded with soul musicians such as Aretha Franklin and James Brown. Between 1962 and 1964, she served as the musical director for the bands accompanying Dinah Washington
and Sarah Vaughan.

In the 1970s, Bown worked as a pianist in orchestras on

Broadway and composed for film and television. She played regularly at the Village Gate nightclub for many years and lived in Greenwich Village
for the last 37 years of her life.

Discography

With Gene Ammons

With Billy Byers

  • Impressions of Duke Ellington (Mercury, 1961)

With Art Farmer

With Etta Jones

With Quincy Jones

With Cal Massey

  • Blues to Coltrane (Candid)

With Oliver Nelson

With Cal Tjader

  • Warm Wave (Verve, 1964)
  • Hip Vibrations (Verve, 1967)

With Big Joe Turner

With Dave Van Ronk

With Roswell Rudd

With Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson

With Dinah Washington

References

Further reading

Articles

Books

  • Unterbrink, Mary (1983). Jazz Women at the Keyboard. Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Company. pp. [https://www.mediafire.com/view/wc34yb0m1sgrbrz/ 137–142, 140–142.
    ISBN 0-89950-074-9

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