Career
Foreign over 4 decades, Brown has played with well-known performers from Natalie Cole to Jermaine Jackson. Brown’s first big break came in Florida with TK Records as their in house percussionist. He recorded and/or toured with most of their artists, including Benny Latimore, Little Beaver, Clarence Reid, Betty Wright, Gwen McCrae, and George McCrae.
Eddie Brown arranged his first recording session in Los Angeles with Gene McDaniels who recorded the 1960s hit, "A Hundred Pounds of Clay".
Gene was producing Nancy Wilson at the time, so Eddie told Gene of Oliver Brown’s credits with KC and The Sunshine Band, who were then featured on the cover of Cashbox magazine. Gene then invited Brown to the studio to meet him where to his surprise in the studio were sitting: George Duke on keyboards, Ron Carter on Bass, and Steve Gadd on drums.
His knees began to knock, at the prospect of being thrown cold into a session with some of the world’s finest musicians. But, to his relief, Gene had planned to have him do an overdub the next day.
He successfully completed the recording session and earned his credits on Nancy Wilson’s album, This Mother’s Daughter.
This opened the door for more recording and touring with such artists as Jermaine Jackson, The Whispers, Larry Vann, Billy Preston, Leo Sayer, First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jarreau, Natalie Cole, Thelma Houston, saxophonist Cal Bennett, John Stewart, Doug Mcleod, The Beach Boys, Ron Thompson, Chris Bennett,, Fleetwood Mac, Mick Fleetwood’s Blue Whale Blues Band and many other Warner Brothers, Capitol Records and Motown Recording artists. Payne and Jackson are the main songwriters for the group. Brown has stated that the group has given him the opportunity to express percussion in a way that could be said to be a percussionist’s dream. was conceived without the aid of trap drums or a bass player.
Jackson plays left hand keyboard bass.
This gave Brown the opportunity to cover all the territory of trap drums and percussion in the arrangements of their music (driven by percussion). is a Billboard #1 Smooth Jazz artist. Brown performed on all of " albums from his hit "Pacific Coast Highway" to his current album titled, "City Groove".
Brown continues to perform with and as well as with other prominent artists around the globe. The film was a featured documentary at the Monaco Festival in May 2012, and was granted an Honorary award.
