Marion Brown (born 8 September 1935 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA) is a jazz alto-saxophonist and ethnomusicologist. September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Atlanta is the capital and largest city of Georgia, a state of the United States of America. ... Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ... Ethnomusicology (from the Greek ethnos = nation and mousike = music), formerly comparative musicology, is the study of music in its cultural context, cultural musicology. ...

Brown studied music education, political science, and history at Clark College and Howard University. He played in an army band, before heading to New York in 1957. It was here that he became involved in the free jazz movement, playing on Archie Shepp's Fire Music LP and John Coltrane's Ascesion LP. In the mid-1960s he travelled to Europe where he developed an interest in African music. He returned to the US in 1970, where he began teaching and studying linguistics and composition. Clark College may mean: Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia (which merged Clark College with Atlanta University) Clark College, a community college in the state of Washington This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Howard University is a historically black university in Washington, D.C. It was established by a congressional charter in 1867, and much of its early funding came from the Freedmens Bureau. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki (R) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Free jazz, or avant-garde jazz, is a movement of jazz music characterized by diminished dependence on formal constraints. ... Archie Shepp is an American free jazz saxophonist. ... John Coltrane John Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. ... World map showing location of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... Africa is a large and diverse continent, consisting of dozens of countries, hundreds of languages and thousands of races, tribes and ethnic groups. ...