Brian Browne (March 16, 1937 – June 5, 2018) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Browne moved to Ottawa as a teenager and was playing professionally by the age of eighteen. Though largely self-taught, Browne attended the Berklee School of Music in Boston, Massachusetts and later studied with

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at Peterson's Advanced School of Contemporary Music in Toronto. Browne rose to prominence in the Canadian jazz scene in the early 1960s, performing in popular jazz venues in Ottawa and Toronto, and appearing in national weekly CBC Radio programs ''Adventures in Rhythm'', ''The Browne Beat'', ''Nightcap'', ''Jazz Canada'' and others. His group, the Brian Browne Trio, performed as the house band on the CTV musical variety program ''The River Inn''. In 1969 Browne appeared as one of four featured pianists, including

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, on the CBC television special ''The Jazz Piano''. He recorded with Canadian singer

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on her albums ''This Way is My Way'' and ''Honey, Wheat and Laughter'' and appeared on her subsequent CBC television special. His original piece "Morning, Noon and Nighttime, too" was awarded BMI Song of the Year in 1971. The Brian Browne Trio has included other notable Canadian musicians

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, RCA Victor, CBC JazzImage, and Sea Jam Recordings (now Triplet Records). He died of lung and tracheal cancer on June 5, 2018.

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