Windham County Heat Fund Benefit Concert Cameron Brown’s 80th Birthday Celebration
March 21, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
Cameron Brown and Dannie’s Calypso
Dave Ballou (trumpet and flugelhorn), Jason Rigby (saxophones), Lisa Parrott (saxophones), Cameron Brown (bass), Tony Jefferson (drums)
About Cameron Brown:
Detroit-born bassist Cameron Brown has been playing jazz and free music professionally since the mid-1960s when he toured Europe with the bands of George Russell, Archie Shepp, Don Cherry and Donald Byrd. Career highlights include a fifty-year musical relationship with NEA Jazz Master, Sheila Jordan, a tour of Japan with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, and a long tenure with the legendary George Adams/Don Pullen Quartet.
Brown’s discography includes six albums under his own leadership and over two hundred recordings as a sideman with such legends as Dannie Richmond, Joe Lovano, George Russell, Archie Shepp, Lee Konitz, Chet Baker, Mal Waldron, Grover Washington Jr., Charlie Persip, Luicano Pavarotti, Ed Blackwell, Ronnie Cuber, Ricky Ford, Beaver Harris, Grady Tate, Mike Longo, Sheila Jordan, Jim McNeely, Steve Grossman, Betty Carter, John Hicks, Dewey Redman, Houston Person, Etta Jones, Jane Ira Bloom, and many others.
For this concert, Cameron brings the NYC-based group he formed to celebrate the music of his former band-mate, Charles Mingus’ famed drummer, Dannie Richmond. Dannie’s Calypso is a piano-less quintet with a three-horn front line: Dave Ballou, Trumpet; Lisa Parrott, saxes; Jason Rigby, Saxes; Cameron Brown, upright bass; Tony Jefferson, drums. VJC expects other surprise guests to join Cameron, including a duo set with Harvey Diamond.
—All Music
