Les Brown
USA
Born: 14 March 1912
Died: 04 January 2001
Styles: Big Band/Swing, Swing, Traditional Pop, Vocal/Standards, Sweet Bands, Big Band
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The leader of a first-class jazz-oriented dance band for over 60 years, Les Brown's music was never innovative but was generally quite pleasing. Brown was born in Reinerton, PA, into the family of a baker. He got started in music early, taking up the saxophone at age seven with the strong encouragement of his father, who played the trombone. He knew how to sight-read before he was ten, and was playing alongside his father by that time at local dances. Brown left high school after one year, choosing instead to attend the Ithaca Conservatory of M...
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