Back to Brian Brown with the lost Winged Messenger [lossless temp link]

Posted so much from him in the past, as you may see if you were to follow that label there at the bottom.

In the end the one I loved the most was Wildflowers. Those tracks were so beautifully crafted and original with so much thought and expressiveness.

This one is more free jazz, but still well worth hearing once. Maybe more often than that. This one came out in the late year of 1987.  The title track, with lovely quasi-crystalline vocals from Judy Jacques, for ex.:

Back to Brian Brown with The Planets, 1985

 

Here we are back with another planets concept album, the third after Moe Koffman and Kazumi Watanabe's Beyond the Infinite.  This one is not as well developed as the others unfortunately, with the compositions a little bit too concise and the jazzy improvisation a little too extended.

The other albums are clearly superior, sadly, but I had to purchase this vinyl just to make sure.

The Space Walk track, as an exemplar:

Brian Brown's Wildflowers from 1984

To my utter shock this turned out to be the best album I'd heard from him with well composed, shorter, less improvised pieces, with the softer, mellower jazz or chamber music this time alternating with lovely orchestral passages.  Given this I'll buy his Planets records which came next and be back with that one soon.

The Old Stockrider:

Brian Brown's Bells Make me Sing, 1979

This time he appears in a quintet, for which discogs lists 4 releases, the first three of which were not interesting at all to me.  The track called Wild Flowers which sounds very European indeed:

Brian Brown's Upward, 1977 [lossless limited time]

From discogs:

Australian jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist, flutist, composer and bandleader, born December 29, 1933 in Melbourne, Australia.

He formed his first group in 1956, which quickly became prominent in Australian experimental jazz.

It's a very meditative, intelligent composed type of contemporary fusion or jazz. 

As the quartet, there is only this release, unfortunately.

For ex., Tall Grass: