Steve Brown has been the Director of Jazz Studies at Ithaca College for the past 40 years.  In addition to teaching, Steve has had the pleasure of performing with many of the jazz greats of our time, including Chuck Israels, Billy Hart, Gerry Niewood, Ben Riley, Claudio Roditi, Bill Goodwin, Marian McPartland, Jimmy Smith, and Barry Harris.  A prolific composer and arranger, Steve has hundreds of compositions that have been performed around the world.

Concert Program

Straightahead City - Ray Brown
Bossa Barbara - Steve Brown, Arr. Ray Brown
Sweet Angel - Steve Brown, Lyrics: Tish Rabe
Two Birds, One Stone - Steve Brown
Embraceable You/Quasimodo - Gershwin/Parker, Arr. Ray Brown
The Telephone Song - Menescal/Boscoli/Gimbel, Arr. Ray Brown
Bittersweet - Willie Maiden, Trans. Ray Brown
The Best of Everything - Tony Bennett, Arr. Steve Brown
Our Love Is Here To Stay - George Gershwin, Arr. Ray Brown

~ Intermission ~

Del Sasser - Sam Jones, Arr. Ray Brown
Pick Yourself Up - Fields/Kern, Arr. Neal Hefti, Trans. Tony DeSare
Kayak - Kenny Wheeler, Arr. Ray Brown
Barbara - Horace Silver, Arr. Ray Brown
I Could Write A Book - Rodgers/Hart, Arr. Ray Brown
The Thumb - Wes Montgomery, Arr. Ray Brown
The Ballad of Thelonious Monk - Jimmy Rowles, Arr. Ray Brown
Stella By Starlight - Victor Young, Arr. Ray Brown
Isn’t It Romantic - Rodgers/Hart, Arr. Darmon Meader
I.C. Light - Ray Brown (Commissioned for the retirement of Steve Brown, March 2008)