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Kathy Brown
Category : ComposerDocs , jazzDocs , PianoDocs
hi wolfgang
info about me may be seen at www.myspace.com/kathymbrown and allaboutjazz.com-do musicians search for kathy brown. my cd is just coming out and i just had a cd and performance debut in toronto, canada on august 5 2007. so i will let you know when i can send my cd and of course i would love a copy of yours. and sure you may go ahead and present me at doctorstalents.com. i refer to myself as a part time doctor and a full time musician!
Kathy Brown began playing the piano before the age of 5 years. Initially self taught in reading and playing ‘by ear’ -” I somehow just heard music and started playing it”-, she eventually did classical piano up to grade 6(Royal School of Music,England). She then had intermittent classes in jazz piano after completing her university studies in medicine (U.W.I.,Jamaica). Today, the medical doctor is an accomplished pianist/keyboard player in a wide variety of musical styles. Kathy Brown and Friends band (formed in 2002) performs refreshingly creative arrangements of songs while exploring many different musical rhythms including latin, jazz, funk/pop, reggae, mento and other indigenous/alternative forms. The band usually presents instumental music (originals and covers) with optional vocals. Kathy Brown is also the toast of a number of special event occasions including banquets, weddings, and corporate functions where she often performs solo. ‘Kathy Brown and Friends’ has performed on a wide variety of stages in Jamaica including: -the Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival(Jan.2004-2007) -the Ocho Rios Jazz Festival(2005,2007) -the Pegasus Jazz in the Gardens series(2003,2004,2006,2007) -the Jazz on the Green series(2004-2007) -the Barbados Jazz Festival Launch(2003) -Emancipation Park Concert series(2003-2006) -the Red Bones Blues Cafe(2002-2004), the Rib Kage Restaurant(2002-2004), and Christopher’s Jazz Cafe(the Quad)(2005-present). Kathy has performed with internationally renowned jazz guitarist Dr. Ernest Ranglin, pop/reggae music recording star Ritchie Stephens, and has composed/arranged music for many choral groups with whom she has performed/toured. The band is in the process of completing it’s debut album-date tba.
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Dr. Kathy Brown – pianist, composor, bandleader, recording artist
Jamaican jazz pianist, medical doctor, Kathy Brown, habitually captivates audiences with pleasing jazz arrangements and delightful piano riffs
The Aries born musician always plays with verve or, as the French says, joie de vivre, with energy and love of life, performances that are highly thought of by the Jamaican press.
American Christopher Porter writing in the Jazz Times described the pianist’s 20-minutes performance at Air Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival 2005 thus, “ The multitalented Dr. Kathy Brown, a jazz and reggae pianist, played a really fun but too-short set, mostly consisting of standards such as Caravan” and “Afro Blue”.
On the same international show, but two years later, on a night headlined by American contemporary jazz star Roy Ayers, Gleaner newspaper writer Adrian Frater noted, “Although not attracting top billing, it was the charismatic and musically charged Dr. Kathy Brown who stole the spotlight as the 2007 Air Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival ended its two-night stopover at the Half Moon Shopping Centre in Montego Bay.
En route to Jamaica’s biggest festivals, including the Ocho Rios Jazz Festival, Brown has stopped at smaller shows and venues such as the Jamaica Pegasus’ Jazz in the Gardens series, Jazz on the Green series, Red Bones Blues Café, Christopher’s Jazz Cafe and many more twice.
The journey continues through record studios and post production blues that finally ended in the arduously labour-intensive debut CD, Mission: A Musical Journey. The 9-track album contents a deft arrangement of Bob Marley’s “Get Up, Stand Up”, her own composition “Mission” and “Latin Groove”.
From the outset Kathy Brown set sight on doing live performances well beyond her island shores. “I am more about performing [and] for this reason I want to take my music outside of Jamaica to places like New York, Canada, Europe, Japan and Africa”.
Kathy Brown who formed her jazz band, Kathy Brown & Friends, in March 2002, considers her style of music World [Beat] music that people anywhere can appreciate.
“ It is not just jazz, reggae or pure anything, it is true crossover and it reaches out to different music style, and people around the world will most certainly appreciate it”.
At age 5, little Katherine Brown, the daughter of two University lecturers, was relentlessly deluged with classical and folk music at home in mid-island Jamaica. Then, she was already singing and whistling before those tiny fingers pattered on the unignorable family piano.
“I grew up in a home where the sound of music was ever-present, on tapes, on LPs and you hear your father playing [piano] downstairs, and older sisters who were also playing”. Almost naturally, she sidled to the piano and, at such tender age, began to play by ear before being signed up for lessons in classical piano.
An insatiable drive to master the instrument led Brown to pursue music as elective in High School (Jamaica) Ivy League College (USA) and during her tenure as a medical student at University of the West Indies.
A family doctor by day and a jazz player some nights, the accomplished pianist has definitively defined her music and sound.
“ My music is definitively a crossover between jazz and indigenous forms of music whether it be reggae, Latin and afro-Brazilian styles”.
Yet, it is as a consummate jazz pianist with or without her band that she shines brightest, evidence by the response of the Jamaican audiences and the rave reviews by the press.
Kathy Brown, who has played with Jamaica’s great guitarist Ernest Ranglin, famed trumpeter Mickey Hanson and Japanese multi-reedist Hiroaki Honshuku, is an excellent performer, a consummate jazz pianist, composer, arranger who is ready for stages outside of homeland Jamaica.
Education
Initially self-taught in reading and playing ‘by ear’, Kathy studied classical piano up to grade 6 (Royal School of Music, England). Later taking intermittent classes in jazz piano after completing her medical degree.
Press Quotes
Good songs in the Garden by Michael ‘Jazzofonik’ Edwards Sunday, May 06, 2007 Save for a characteristically energetic opening stint by Kathy Brown and an all-star band (including Desi Jones and Seretse Small, more on him later), the first half of last Sunday’s Jazz in the Garden was all about the singers and the ‘big man’ Michael Harris shone brightest with a polished yet relaxed set that did a lot in a limited period of time. Dr Kathy Brown, pianist keyboardist extraordinnaire, thrilled Christopher’s Café last Tuesday. Dr Kathy Brown, a fixture on the jazz scene, did not disappoint either, showing poise and ease in her delivery, stirring the audience with the sounds of Summertime, Marley’s Get Up Stand Up, Mission and Afro Blue and leaving them fully satisfied.- Jamaica Observer
(Air Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival 2007 But this night surely belonged to backing band Kathy Brown and friends (Brown on keyboards, Seretse Small on guitar, Desi Jones on drums, Denver Smith on percussion and Aeon Hoilett on bass) for keeping a lively tempo throughout. Interestingly, their exquisite backing of the Barbadian (Rosemary)Phillips belied the fact that the artiste arrived the same day and rehearsal time must have been extremely limited.- Jamaica Pegasus’ Jazz in the garden Jazz fest gets medical treatment published: Friday | January 26, 2007 Adrian Frater, News Editor GLEANER WESTERN BUREAU: Although not attracting top billing, it was the charismatic and musically charged Dr. Kathy Brown who stole the spotlight on Wednesday night as the 2007 Air Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival ended its two-night stopover in the scenic theatre at the Half Moon Shopping Centre, Montego Bay. With brilliant support coming from famed drummer Desi Jones, top-flight bassist Ian Hoilett and master percussionist Denver Smith, who also played congo drums; Dr. Brown was almost therapeutic in her delivery as she drew prolonged applause from the small but appreciative audience. It was like delivering a much-needed prescription to an ailing patient in need of his medicine as Dr. Brown commanded maximum attention, caressing the keyboard with her dancing fingers as she unleashed classic instrumental selections such as Summertime, Flintstones, a rollicking cover of the Bob Marley & the Wailers’ Get Up Stand Up, Take It Easy and Mission in a blazing opening salvo. The ‘Doctors’ delight UWI VALENTINE’S SHOW Michael A Edwards, Observer writer Wednesday, February 16, 2005 Two doctors, one honorary the other medical, along with their respective combos, provided much of the highlights in a thoroughly delightful evening of entertainment at the Old Still House (part of the Visitor’s Lodge compound) at the UWI campus on Valentine’s night. With repertoires encompassing jazz standards to contemporary pop, guitarist Dr Ernest Ranglin and keyboardist Dr Kathy Brown proved enjoyable to couples and singles alike.
Jamaica
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April 18, 1970
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Mario Evon
Category : SingerDocs
is a charismatic Reggae SingingDoc and he studied singing at the Berkley University. Now he is continuing his musical career and practises as an MD in Jamaika.
Find lots of wonderful videos on his youtube account and informations on his web page:
https://DoctorsTalents.com/cd00061en
Mario Guthrie the medical doctor, the singer
published: Monday | January 29, 2007 Tesi Johnson, Gleaner Writer
Dr. Mario Guthrie, has put his medical career on hold to attend the Berkelee College of Music to study voice performance and music business/management. – Contributed
Dr. Mario Guthrie, has done what many would consider irrational and put his medical career on hold to pursue his first passion – music.
Dr. Guthrie, in his mid-twenties, last did duties at the Bustamante Children’s Hospital as an accident and emergency/casualty officer, enrolled in berklee college of Music, Boston, Massachusetts. The largest independent music college in the world, Berklee has produced musical icons such as Quincy Jones. Earlier this month Guthrie, began studies for a joint-degree in voice performance and music business/management.
“Why would he go and do music now? His parents must be disappointed. What’s going to happen to the medicine? Will he make it anywhere?” These are questions and comments that Dr. Guthrie has had to face, since enrolling at Berklee.
However, as he describes it, “once the music bug bites you, you cannot get away from it.”
Discovering his passion
The doctor got his first taste of the stage as a tyke at Mona Preparatory School, performing with the school’s choir. He gave his first solo performance when he was 13 with the ‘Choir Boyz’, while attending Campion College.
However, it was not until a year before medical school that he really discovered his passion.
That year, he entered the realm of theatre and performed with the Jamaica Musical Theatre Company (JMTC). He performed in the production Lion King, and played ‘Daniel’ in the company’s limited production of Once on this island among others.
When he started medical school, all this musical indulgence slowed a bit, “but performing was always an itch,” he says.
Dr. Guthrie continued to perform when he could, singing with the University Singers, and alongside his peers in productions staged by his faculty.
After finishing medical school, Dr. Guthrie finally got the chance to ‘scratch his itch,’ and soon did quite a few stints performing backup for local acts like Benjy Myaz, Alaine, and even at the 2006 Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival, with the Rocky Five Band.
These experiences, paired with a suggestion made by his voice trainer to look into Berklee, prompted him to apply.
In early 2006, he travelled to Boston to do an audition, as part of his application, and by the end of March he had received notice that he was accepted.
Music Management
Dr. Mario Guthrie (standing) in performance at a birthday party in October 2006. – Contributed
Studying voice performance was a natural progression for this tenor. However, the good doctor also has a penchant for music management, which came to the fore after he staged his first live production.
‘Live On-stage’, Dr. Guthrie’s brainchild, for which the theme was “live music on a theatre stage,” was held in November 2006 at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Performing Arts, UWI, Mona. The event featured acts such as Benjy Myaz, Brahyhan Art, Camar, and Elan Edwards, and was partly in aid of the Mona Rehabilitation Centre.
“Ideally, I’d like to become a recording artiste, but I’m keeping my scope open, in case that doesn’t happen,” he says.
Not quitting
Despite this new course, Dr. Guthrie asserts, “I am not quitting medicine. I am basically putting my first passion first,” he continues, a choice which many parents would certainly disdain.
His parents, Mrs. Marguerite and Dr. Wendel Guthrie, are actually quite supportive, as described by young Dr. Guthrie.
“Parents often have their own ideals for their children but mine supports me,” he says. This support is manifested in their partly funding his musical studies.
Influences
The Guthrie family has generally been a rock for young Mario, who credits his older brother, Wayne, for being his greatest influence.
“When I was younger I didn’t listen to a lot of music,” Dr. Guthrie explains. “It was my brother [Wayne] who listened to a lot of music” and this was the catalyst that jump-started Mario’s love for performing.
Wayne Guthrie enjoys music by working as a disc jockey outside of his ‘nine to five.’
“Wherever I go I will take him with me, and he’ll do the same for me,” explains Mario.
For now, Dr. Guthrie will be focusing on excelling in his musical discipline, in a bid to one day become a successful recording artiste, and still practice medicine.
For this Dr. Guthrie can count on always being dubbed ‘the singing doc’, though he tries fervently to separate the two.
We love our dad because…..he is one of the kindest, smartest and practical men we know, and he has been an excellent, supportive and cool dad. He is a shining of example of a gentleman, a realist and everything we believe a man should be. We wish him the most amazing Father’s Day this year and for years to come.”
