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San Francisco Nites (and Days)

the hippies were here first, or most prominently @ least. They say the spirit now is angst, as extreme wealth and similarly extreme poverty sit uneasily on the same bench. Who’s to say what may come next, but the city is pulsing – big swaths of empty spaces rising up periodically. Good coffee. Always goodContinue reading “San Francisco Nites (and Days)”

Got live if you want it

Live albums are always a dicey proposition. The allure of a concert is that the experience can’t be reproduced. Otherwise why be inconvenienced by travel and interaction with a host of unpleasantness? However, there are a number of live albums which so successfully capture musicians in rare moments of supreme creativity that they are indispensable.Continue reading “Got live if you want it”

Let me up

To quote the late, great Tom Petty -or was it Bob Dylan-the saturation in modern society can “jam” you. Money: jam. Family : jam. Friends: jam. Internet: jam. When it all gets too much, one thing which works for us is a good spin of (self promotion alert) The Co-Op. We created this album toContinue reading “Let me up”

Try to make the magic last

By now anyone paying even the remotest attention here and elsewhere in the Brown Brothers universe knows our predilection for physical over virtual media. Here’s another entry in that swimming-upstream effort. Back in 2008 Elvis Costello released a solid-if-unspectacular album called Momofuku. One gorgeous highlight is the song Flutter and Wow, one of his mostContinue reading “Try to make the magic last”

Oh what a feeling!

Some want to be a king or a queen, some wish for fortune and fame. but to be truly, truly, truly loved is more than all of these things https://g.co/kgs/Gi9KR9

The album is the thing

We come now to compare the joys of owning and listening to records versus attending a live concert. Apples and oranges for sure but there must be some basis for comparison. Here goes: a record is a virtually permanent artifact which you can study, replay and learn from for as long as you can hearContinue reading “The album is the thing”

New York Times, New York History

Jazz-Ageddon started out as a hazy idea in Steve Mandel’s apartment in Summer, 2017. It evolved into one of the most bitterly disputed executions in label history. But over 3 nights in January 2018 it took on a life of its own. Thanks to the glue of modern day BBR, the world class vibraphonist WarrenContinue reading “New York Times, New York History”

Monday 1/22… Horn Hysteria!!!

knock you on yer ass jazz…

Brown Brothers 2017 Year in Review Part 2

It’s been a year of seismic change on planet Brown Brothers. The Co-Op lp earned us our second consecutive group of rave reviews after label debut and critically lauded Gold Sounds, live shows were booked, cancelled and viciously fought over and my brother Arvin Suback came on board as my writing colleague for BBR missives.Continue reading “Brown Brothers 2017 Year in Review Part 2”

Evergreen

We don’t make music with an expiration date. Release dates, promotion and sales are all concepts which are traditionally temporal in the music business but we want to establish a new paradigm: forever music. We’re just as excited about Gold Sounds today as the day we went into the studio or got the first boxes of cdsContinue reading “Evergreen”

Grassroots revolution

Outcome determinative. It’s one of the most deadly phrases in the English language. It started in the legal profession as a way for federal courts to decide whether they should show deference to state law in federal cases where state law should control. But, it has morphed into a way of thinking so pervasive thatContinue reading “Grassroots revolution”

All this useless plugging

Forget the non-stop shilling for a second. Close your eyes and picture yourself in a quaint townhouse smack dab in he middle of Baltimore on the open floor second storey. You are sitting in a chair among 100 or so other people on a Friday or Saturday night in mid-January 2018. There is beautiful musicContinue reading “All this useless plugging”