Rob Brown

Rob Brown is an American alto saxophonist and composer, born in 1962 in Hampton, Virginia, and active in the New York free jazz scene since the 1980s. He leads his own small groups and has had long working relationships with bassist William Parker, pianist Matthew Shipp, Joe Morris and drummer Whit Dickey. Brown studied in Boston before moving to New York. His first album was Sonic Explorations (Cadence, 1988), a duo with Shipp, and a trio with Morris and Dickey followed.