"Marion Brown's Musical Portrait of Georgia"

[Joe]

Fifty years ago, Marion Brown recorded “Afternoon of a Georgia Faun,” an experimental, musical collaboration to re-create the sounds of nature from his Southern childhood. Jazz critic Jon Ross takes us on a journey through Brown’s musical legacy.

Story by Jon Ross | Photographs by Larry Fink

Read it here: https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2021/marion-browns-musical-portrait-of-georgia

[Guy Berger]

Thanks for sharing.

[Gheorghe]

very interesting to read ! 

[optatio]

Many thanks for starting this topic, Joe! See: http://discog.piezoelektric.org/marionbrown/r/afternoonofageorgiafaun.html and:

David Grundy:  “A man walking into the future backwards”: Marion Brown, the American South, and ‘Afternoon of a Georgia Faun’.  https://eartripmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/eartrip6.pdf

 

[Joe]

3 hours ago, optatio said:

Many thanks for starting this topic, Joe! See: http://discog.piezoelektric.org/marionbrown/r/afternoonofageorgiafaun.html and:

David Grundy:  “A man walking into the future backwards”: Marion Brown, the American South, and ‘Afternoon of a Georgia Faun’.  https://eartripmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/eartrip6.pdf

 

And thank you for this EARTRIP link!

[mikeweil]

Great articles! Thanks for linking. I need to pull out these albums again.