"...Peter is one of the most creative, versatile and accomplished keyboardists I have had the pleasure of hearing. He performs, writes, teaches, and records. There is no musical genre he cannot play well."
James Peckett — Shiverz Entertainment Magazine, Apr. 1999
Career Highlights
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Peter Brown Jazz Quartet/Quintet played the Merrickville Jazz Festival, 2014 and the Stewart Park Festival, 2015
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Peter Brown Jazz Trio played at the Ottawa International Jazz Festival every year from 2003 to 2011 and again in 2016 and 2017
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played the Ottawa Bluesfest every year from 1998 to 2011 with Mumbo Jumbo Voodoo Combo
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keyboard player, singer, songwriter, actor for Stone Fence Theatre, from 2009
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has composed and performed more 300 choral arrangements of popular tunes since 1999
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piano accompanist and occasional choral arranger for the Town Singers of Carleton Place, from 2008
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toured with former Rolling Stone Mick Taylor, 2003
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backed Texas blues guitar great Sherman Robertson, 2002
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co-founder and keyboardist for the Mississippi Blues Society of Carleton Place, Ontario, 2001 to 2012
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piano accompanist, bandleader and choral arranger for the Mississippi Mudds theatre company, 1994 to 2015
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worked with the legendary Canadian blues singer, Dutch Mason, 1993 to 1997
- backed Chicago blues saxophone legend, A.C. Reed, 1993
CDs Released
- The Rockerfellas, self-titled, 2015
- Beautiful Love, Peter Brown Jazz Quartet, 2014
- Franklin Street, Peter Brown Jazz Trio, 2008
- Marie-Claude, Peter Brown, solo piano, 2003
CDs With Other Artists
- Stone Fence Theatre, Here Comes The Train: The Ottawa Valley Railway Story, 2016
- Brock Zeman, Pulling Your Sword From The Devil's Back, 2015
- George Turcotte, Otherland, 2014
- Terry McLeish, Terry McLeish, 2011 and Small Town Gone, 2016
- Brea Lawrenson, Somewhere To Go, 2011
- Mumbo Jumbo Voodoo Combo, Mardi Gras Dans La Boite, 2009
- Michael Favreau, Adrianopel, 2008
- Elyssa Mahoney and Lucas Haneman, Pull Me In, 2008
- Paul Blissett, Fire And Soul, 2005
- Zydeco Loco, Voici Le Pamplemousse!, 2001
- Mumbo Jumbo Voodoo Combo, How About That, 2001
- The Boppin' Blues Band, I Dig My Job, 1996
- Drew Nelson, Mr. Nelson's Neighbourhood, 1994
- and many more
Music Career
- has played jazz and blues keyboards for over 50 years [and boy, are his arms tired]
- has taught classical piano since 1975
- has taught improvised piano styles (jazz, blues, pop) since 1983
- designed and taught a "Piano Playing By Ear" course for adults for the Ottawa Board of Education, Continuing Education department, from 1990 to 1998
- designed and taught a Popular Piano course for children for the Ottawa Board of Education, Extracurricular Creative Arts department, from 1992 to 1998
Performance Experience
- The Rockerfellas, from 2011
- Peter Brown Jazz Quartet, from 2011
- Peter Brown Jazz Trio, from 2003
- Mumbo Jumbo Voodoo Combo, 1997-2013
- Boppin' Blues Band, 1995-1999
- The Hurricanes, 1991-1998
- Dutch Mason, 1993-1997
- Drew Nelson Band, 1993-1995
- 5:15 House Band (jazz fusion) 1988-1991
- hundreds, maybe thousands, of solo piano/vocal appearances at clubs, private events, house concerts, seniors' residences, etc.
Music Education
- A.R.C.T. diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, 1975