SHADES OF BROWN - s/t LP garage The disparate influences are held

The disparate influences are held together by common earnestness and even optimism

the alto saxophonist had already been a stalwart of the NYC jazz scene for nearly a decade having spent the entirety of the 1950s cutting his teeth alongside bebop legends like Miles Davis and Charles Mingus

Teenage Burritos

and the Escorts (Montreal

and unabashed teen angst

SHADES OF BROWN - s/t LP garage The disparate influences are heldIncludes two sided colour insert. Rehearsing at the Albina Arts Center, members of the Shades Of Brown found one other as a variety of Albinas musical acts were shifting, separating, reconstituting, and forming anew. The group would feature members of the Cavaliers Unlimited, Little Nolan And The Antoine Brothers, Youthsound, Upepo, and the Norman Sylvester Band. And as luck would have it, Free Meal Ticket renowned soul singer Wilson Picketts group