Create account Log in

Charles Brown

[Edit]

Wikimp3 information about the music of Charles Brown. On our website we have 70 albums and 70 collections of artist Charles Brown. You can find useful information and download songs of this artist. We also know that Charles Brown represents Blues genres.

Biography

[Edit]

How many blues artists remained at the absolute top of their game after more than a half-century of performing? One immediately leaps to mind: Charles Brown. His incredible piano skills and laid-back vocal delivery remained every bit as mesmerizing at the end of his life as they were way back in 1945, when his groundbreaking waxing of "Drifting Blues" with guitarist Johnny Moore's Three Blazers invented an entirely new blues genre for sophisticated postwar revelers: an ultra-mellow, jazz-inflected sound perfect for sipping a late-night libation in some hip after-hours joint. Brown's smooth trio format was tremendously influential to a host of high-profile disciples — Ray Charles, Amos Milburn, and Floyd Dixon, for starters.

Classically trained on the ivories, Brown earned a degree in chemistry before moving to Los Angeles in 1943. He soon hooked up with the Blazers (Moore and bassist Eddie Williams), who modeled themselves after Nat "King" Cole's trio but retained a bluesier tone within their ballad-heavy repertoire. With Brown installed as their vocalist and pianist, the Blazers' "Drifting Blues" for Philo Records remained on Billboard's R&B charts for 23 weeks, peaking at number two. Follow-ups for Exclusive and Modern (including "Sunny Road," "So Long," "New Orleans Blues," and their immortal 1947 Yuletide classic "Merry Christmas Baby") kept the Blazers around the top of the R&B listings from 1946 through 1948, until Brown opted to go solo.

If anything, Brown was even more successful on his own. Signing with Eddie Mesner's Aladdin logo, he visited the R&B Top Ten no less than ten times from 1949 to 1952, retaining his mournful, sparsely arranged sound for the smashes "Get Yourself Another Fool," the chart-topping "Trouble Blues" and "Black Night," and "Hard Times." Despite a 1956 jaunt to New Orleans to record with the Cosimo's studio band, Brown's mellow approach failed to make the transition to rock's brasher rhythms, and he soon faded from national prominence (other than when his second holiday perennial, "Please Come Home for Christmas," hit in 1960 on the King label). Occasionally recording without causing much of a stir during the '60s and '70s, Brown began to regroup by the mid-'80s. One More for the Road, a set cut in 1986 for the short-lived Blue Side logo, announced to anyone within earshot that Brown's talents hadn't diminished at all while he was gone (the set later re-emerged on Alligator). Bonnie Raitt took an encouraging interest in Brown's comeback bid, bringing him on tour with her as her opening act (thus introducing the blues vet to a whole new generation or two of fans). His recording career took off too, with a series of albums for Bullseye Blues (the first entry, 1990's All My Life, is especially pleasing), and more recently, a disc for Verve.

In his last years, Brown finally received at least a portion of the recognition he deserved for so long as a genuine rhythm and blues pioneer. But the suave, elegant Brown was by no means a relic, as anyone who witnessed his thundering boogie piano style will gladly attest; he returned in 1998 with So Goes Love before dying on January 21, 1999.

Title: Trouble Blues

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Blues

Title: Light of the Dawn

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Rock

Title: 28 Big Ones

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Blues

Title: 1949 1951

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Jazz

Title: Still Water

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Blues

Title: Live

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues

Title: Flow

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Jazz

Title: Bobby Sox Blues

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Jazz

Title: 1948-1949

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Blues, Jazz

Title: Trouble No More

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Blues

Title: Circles

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Rock, Punk Rock

Title: Cryin' Mercy

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Blues, Jazz

Title: Googie's Boogie

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Blues

Title: Hard Times

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Pop

Title: Knock Me a Kiss

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Jazz

Title: New Orbit

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Jazz

Title: Numero Uno Blues

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Blues

Title: Race Truck Blues

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Blues

Title: Storm Rising

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Rock

Title: Tall Grass

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Jazz

Title: Thru the Flames

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Rock

Title: Warsaw Concerto

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Blues

Title: Buoy

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Electronica

Title: Sail on Blues

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Blues

Title: Groovy

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Blues

Title: Carnival

Artist: Charles Brown

Genre: Electronica

Collections

Title: Voodoo Jazz & Blues

Genre: Jazz

Title: Black Nite Blues

Genre: Blues

Title: Bustin the Blues

Genre: Blues

Title: Best of Blues

Genre: Blues

Title: Blues Anthems

Genre: Blues

Title: Holiday Slow Jams

Genre: Pop

Title: Good Ol' Christmas

Genre:

Title: Radio Blues No. 1

Genre: Blues

Title: Blues Story 4

Genre: Blues

Title: Retro Jazz Xmas

Genre:

Featuring albums

Title: Simply The Best

Artist: Earl Hooker

Genre: Blues

Title: Rainy Day Moments

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Jazz

Title: 20 1's Holiday

Artist: Various Artists

Genre:

Title: Vintage Christmas

Artist: Various Artists

Genre:

Title: Texas Blues

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Blues

Title: Blues Ballads

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Blues

Title: Jazz Guitar 101

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Jazz

Title: 200 Blues

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Blues

Title: Blues Essentials

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Blues

Genres