Jeremy Brown Quintet: Magnitudes

Jeremy Scott Brown is an award-winning teacher, performer and Professor of Music at the University of Calgary where he currently leads the saxophone studio, serves as Performance Lead of Music and is Director of the Centre for Research in the Fine Arts. His collaborative jazz CD with Jack Wilkins, Saxophone Legacy (2022) was number one on !earshot, the Canadian National Jazz Chart in July, 2022. His classical saxophone CD emergence (2022) with new compositions by David Eagle, Vincent Ho, Nov Pon and Claude Lapalme, won Outstanding Classical Recording of the Year at the 2023 YYC Music Awards. His new CD on Chronograph Records, Intersections, with original compositions by trombonist Audrey Ochoa and Brown, will be released in October 2024.

Magnitudes, a free improvisation recording with Joe Morris was released in 2023 to critical acclaim on Downtown Music Gallery and by European critic Massimo Ricci who said “(Brown) reveals a whole universe of gorgeous phrasing that is both graceful on a formal level and somewhat unanticipated….” His Wayfaring (2014) recording by Nova Pon was nominated as the Outstanding Classical composition of 2015 by the Western Canadian Music Awards. In 2010, the Western Canadian Music Awards nominated his solo recording of Canadian solo and chamber music for saxophone, “Rubbing Stone,” as the Outstanding Classical Recording of the year.

Jeremy Scott Brown is an award-winning Calgary saxophonist, flutist, professor of music, author, and composer who will perform at the Asylum for Art on October 18 with his quintet. His forthcoming recording, Intersections on the Chronograph record label, features Audrey Ochoa on trombone, Chris Andrew on piano, Kodi Hutchison on bass, and Tyler Hornby on drums, with original compositions by Ochoa and Brown.