2012 Presenters
Leonard Brown
Leonard Brown is a professional saxophonist, composer and arranger, author, and an associate professor of African American studies and music at Northeastern University. In addition to performing nationally and internationally with artists like Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, George Russell, Bill Barron, Yusef Lateef, Alan Dawson, and Ed Blackwell, he is the co-founder and producer of Boston's annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert. He has received several awards and fellowships, including a Distinguished Scholar Award from the John D. O'Bryant African American Institute at Northeastern University and JazzBoston's Musician of the Year award. Brown was the principal contributor to the book Kansas City...And All That's Jazz and editor of John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music, which was published in 2010.
Links:
Interview about the John Coltrane Memorial Concert
Review of John Coltrane and Interview
