Boyce Brown

{{Short description|American jazz saxophonist (1910-1959)}}

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| origin = {{flagicon|USA}}Chicago, Illinois

| instrument = Alto saxophone

| genre = Jazz

| occupation = Saxophonist

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| past_member_of = Wingy Manone

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Boyce Brown (April 16, 1910 – January 30, 1959) was an American jazz dixieland alto saxophonist born in Chicago, Illinois.

Brown worked with Wingy Manone, Paul Mares, and Danny Alvin. His best-known recordings are a 1935 session with Paul Mares and his Friars Society Orchestra (first issued on LP in 1955 as part of Columbia's Chicago Style Jazz album) and a 1939 session with Jimmy McPartland & his Jazz Band, which was first released as part of Decca's Chicago Jazz album. In both sessions, Brown demonstrates a driving, harmonically advanced style.

In 1953, Brown entered a monastery of the Roman Catholic Servite Order, but returned in 1956 to release his one and only album as Brother Matthew, backed by a band organized by Eddie Condon.[http://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/blues-for-boyce/ Michael Steinman, from his blog Jazz Lives]

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