“Super Blue”
Written by Freddie Hubbard
OZ NOY: Guitar
ALAN LOPRESTI: Guitar
PHILIPPE SAISSE: Keyboards
DENNIS CHAMBERS: Drums
RON FRANCE: Bass
CHRIS ROGERS: Flugelhorn
JOHN VIAVATTINE, SR.: Saxophone, Flute
ANDY KRAVITZ: Percussion
Producer: Tom Emmi
Additional Production Support, Music Mix & Mastering: Andy Kravitz
Audio Engineers: Mark Stewart, Andy Kravitz & Bob Schachner
Video Editors: George Ramsay, Leo Switucha
“Cissy Strut”
Written by Art Neville, George Porter, Jr., Leo Nocentelli & Joseph Modeliste
OZ NOY: Guitar
PHILIPPE SAISSE: Keyboards
MARCUS FINNIE: Drums
WILL LEE: Bass
CHRIS WEST: All Horns
Producer: Tom Emmi
Music Mix: Phil Nicolo
Video Editors: George Ramsay, Leo Switucha
Victor Bailey, Michael and Randy Brecker, Eric Clapton, Billy Cobham, George Duke, Bill Evans, Roberta Flack, Bob James, Marcus Miller, David Sanborn, and Joe Zawinul. Sounds like an encyclopedia of contemporary jazz geniuses, and perhaps it is. But it’s also a short list of the musicians who considered themselves fortunate to have played with guitar hero Dean Brown. On his five solo albums and on more than a hundred others – including four Grammy winners – Dean demonstrated a chameleon’s ability to adapt his touch and tone to everything from 12-bar blues to freestyle jazz, funk and Latin fusion. Though he was just 68 when cancer took him in January of 2024, he left us more than a lifetime’s worth of licks.
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