Brian Browne
Pianist
Jazz artist who became well-known across Ottawa and Toronto in the early 1960s whose career spanned half a century.
He was a student at the Berklee School of Music in Boston and at Oscar Peterson's Advanced School of Contemporary Music in Toronto.
He was a fixture on CBC Radio, appearing on Adventures in Rhythm, The Browne Beat, Nightcap, Jazz Canada, and other programs.
He fathered Sean Browne with his wife, Swedish-born jazz singer Barbro Nylundh. Sean became a jazz musician as well, also teaching himself to play.
He was featured alongside Bill Evans, Erroll Garner, and Marian McPartland on The Jazz Piano, a 1969 CBC television special.