Connoisseurs corner
Recommended Live Gig for December 2010
Jocelyn Brown, Jazz Café Fri 10th, Sat 11th, Sun 12th Tickets £20 in ADV
Born on the 25th November 1950, Kinston, North Carolina, U.S.A. Jocelyn Brown comes from a musical family. Her aunt, Barbara Roy, sung in the female group Ecstasy,
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Passion and Pain (EPP). Her grandmother, mother, two aunts, and a cousin all sang. Brown spent her pre-school years with her grandmother in Kinston, North Carolina, U.S.A. Her aunt’s success with Ecstasy, Passion and Pain provided the inspiration for Brown to spread her musical wings. Beginning in church and singing with various gospel choirs out of Brooklyn, Brown built up a solid following, becoming a favored soloist at her uncle’s church in Washington, D.C. Gradually,
Brown left gospel for secular music, disco in particular, singing with local bands like Machine and Kleeer. She was a member of Monty Rock’s pseudo soul group Disco Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes, who scored with ‘Get Dancing,’ and Musique, who waxed ‘Keep on Jumpin’ and the risque ‘Push Push in the Bush.’ Brown was travelling all over the world do- ing what she loved best, sing- ing.
At home she worked with producer Greg Diamond on different projects, including the group Change, which featured a male vocalist by the name of
ADB’s Bad Boogie Production December 2010 Luther Vandross.
She kept busy touring with Change and doing studio and live background vocals for a lengthy list of artists, including John Lennon, Roberta Flack, Janis Joplin, Dan Hartman, Bette Midler, George Benson and Boy George.
When the members of Change disbanded, Brown started recording with other groups like Inner Life on Salsoul Records, where she solo’d on a superlative disco version of ‘Ain’t No Mountain High Enough’ and established herself on the dance club circuit. All the while she kept her bank
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