Gigs

Court of Two Sisters

Maison Bourbon

JOHN WEHNER'S FAMOUS DOOR

The Natchez River Boat
Natchez

New Orleans Jazz Fest

Sacramento Jazz Jubilee
1976-1996

The Gazebo Restaurant
1018 Decatur St, New Orleans

Gazebo

Jackson Square

The Toulouse Theater
"One Mo Time"
play

Louis Armstrong Park

Aquarium of the Americas

Hyatt Regency
May 27th 1987

Ernie Carson and his
Capital City Jazz Band

Marriot Hotel
1981
Pud Brown and his Delta Kings

Royal Sonesta Hotel
August 14, 1981
Pud Brown and his Delta Kings

Crecent City Cafe
1981
Pud Brown and his Delta Kings

French Market
1975 - 1996

Louisiana World Exposition
(World's Fair)Opening day--May 12,
1984

Seattle World's Fair, Washington
1962

The You Boutique
8131 Hampson Street
New Orleans LA.

1973
Shreveport Louisiana

Paul Cummins Roaring 20's Restaurant
Beverly Hills, Restaurant Row - 157 N. La Cienega Boulevard

Memories of Pud Brown and The Roaring 20's by Sharon Lawrence

SPANISH PLAZA STAGE
Canal Street - New Orleans
Pud Brown's Gentelmen of Jazz

Los Angeles
Classic Jazz Festival
Sept 4,5,6,7 1987

Pud Brown, New Orleans' Official Jazz Musician
Pud with Mayor Dutch Morial
Pud also appeared with Dutch in TV commercials for New Orleans

Pud's First job in New Orleans was Carlo Montebano's Blue Angle

Pud's first job age 5, Brown family band.

     Pud would often make recordings of his music jobs, concerts and jam sessions. One of which is of five unpublished tunes recorded in 1955 at the Royal Room, Hollywood and Las Palmas Street with Benny Goodman - clarinet, Ray Bauduc - drums, Amorty Corb - bass, Marvin Ash - piano, Charlie Teagarden - trumpet and Pud Brown- tenor sax.

1. Jazz Me Blues
2. That's A Plenty
3. Moon Glow
4. Shine
5. Sunny Side Of The Street

To play these sound clips you need the RealAudio Player and a 28.8 or better modem.
     This recording exists because of unusual circumstances. Jack Teagarden and his wife were having an argument. She got very angry with Jack and threw Jacks tape recorder at him. The tape recorder was busted to pieces. Jack knowing that Pud likes to fix things gave the recorder to Pud to fix who put it up stairs above the band stand and was working on it. One night Benny Goodman came in and sat in on the set. Pud realized this is a historical moment and runs upstairs and turns on the recorder hoping that it would play and left it running. This recording is the result. Because the machine was broken and Pud got it to barely work so it has some gaps and some distortion.

     This is a rare recording where Benny Goodman was with his friends, relaxed, stretched out and was jamming.

Telescriptions

     Produced by Louis Snader in the 1950s, Pud appeared in three-and-a-half minute short films of musical performances that were marketed to television stations for use in variety shows or as filler material.

     Over 1200 diverse musical performances shot between 1949 - 1954, including popular singers such as Gail Storm, Teresa Brewer, Peggy Lee and Mel Torme, as well as country music legends, vaudeville personalities and Black artists such as Nat King Cole, Count Basie and Sarah Vaughn. Historic Films currently holds the 35mm negative.

     In 1952, the Snaders were sold to Studio Films, Inc., which also produced its own music shorts from 1952-54. Many of the jazz-related Snader and Studio Telescriptions were assembled into feature-length films for release to theaters under such titles as Basin Street Revue and Jazz Festival. They were also assembled into thirty-minute compilations for television under the series title Showtime at the Apollo. Both the Soundies and Telescriptions have been frequently recycled in recent years in various other guises for cable television and home video.

SWINGTIME VIDEO. No. 115, Meet the Dixieland Bands Vol. 1-- The Jack Teagarden Sextet, the Bobcats. Copyright Collection Swingtime Video, 1985. Producer: Wally Heider. 55 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette. VAA 4747 In 1951, the Jack Teagarden Sextet Marvin Ash, Ray Bauduc, Heinie Beau, Don Bonnee, Pud Brown, Ray Leatherwood and Charlie "Little Tea" Teagarden play; Dixieland standards and Basin Street Blues, Dark Eyes, Jack Armstrong Blues, Lover, Rockin' Chair and "Stars Fell on Alabama. The Bobcats reunite in 1950,stars of the original Bob Crosby Orchestra and the Bobcats. Numbers include: Big Noise from Winnetka" (with Bob Haggart and Ray Bauduc), Complainin', Love's Got Me in a Lazy Mood (with Eddie Miller), March of the BobCats, Muskrat Ramble, Panama, Savoy Blues, and "Who's Sorry Now. ----------------------------------------------- VVD 758 Dixieland Jazz, vol. 1--- 58 min., b&w, mono. The Bobcats 1951 incl. Billy Butterfield, Warren Smith, Eddie Miller, Jess Stacy, play: Muskrat ramble, Big noise from Winnetka, March of the Bobcats, Savoy Blues, Who's sorry now, Complainin', Love's got me in a lazy mood, Panama Rag. Jack Teagarden & his All Star Group 1951 incl; Heinie Beau, Pud Brown, Don Bonnie,Don Ewell, Ray Bauduc. play: Lover, Basin St. Blues, Wolverine Blues, Rockin' chair, That's a plenty, Nobody knows the trouble I've seen, Jack Armstrong Blues, Stars fell on Alabama, Dark eyes, Georgia on my mind. ----------------------------------------------------------- SWINGTIME VIDEO. No. 120, Meet the Dixieland Bands Vol. 2-- Firehouse Five Plus Two, Red Nichols and his Pennies, Pete Daily and his Chicagoans. Copyright Collection Swingtime Video, 1985. Producer: Wally Heider. 53 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette. VAA 4748 Danny Alguirre, Harper Goff, Ward Kimball, Clarke Mallory, Monte Mountjoy, Ed Penner and Frank Thomas form the Firehouse Five Plus Two, performing here in 1951 Dixieland standards and originals, featuring "Hook and Ladder Blues" and "Red River Valley." Red Nichols and his Pennies of 1950 Rollie Culver, Bobby Hammack, King Jackson, Rosy McHargue, Joe Rushton. play; American Patrol, Back Room Blues, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Entrance of the Gladiators, Three Blind Mice. Pete Daily with the Chicagoans Hugh Allison, Skippy Anderson, Pud Brown, Len Esterdahl, Bud Hatch and Burt Johnson. play a set featuring Daily Double, Goat Blues, (with Bud Hatch), O Tannenbaum, Over the Waves Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone (with Pud Brown).

Learn more about Telescriptions

A Tribute To Jack Teagarden Teagarden on Film
www.TVparty.com TV's First Videos
MacDonald & Associates Soundies Telescriptions
Library of Congress The Guide to Jazz in Film Bibliography German site Videos

A letter from Ward Kimball
Ward Kimball Disney's top animator and Fire House Five + Two band leader.

Pud was in the first videos made and his latest video was

"At The Catfish Hotel"

The Catfish Hotel was made here in New Orleans, produced and directed by Jim Gabour and aired on the Bravo station Cox Cable 1987-1990

Pud Brown - Clarinet.
David Sager - Trombone/vocalist
Wendell Brunious - Trumpet/vocals
Jack David Harris Announcer

"At The Catfish Hotel" as shot entirely on
location at the historic
COLUMNS HOTEL
New Orleans

Sorry! Catfish Hotel is currently out of print.

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Story by Jim Gabour
Cutting Loose

Pud also appears in
Jazz Lives
The Great Jazzmen of New Orleans--Video: VHS, Color; 60 minutes
A video focusing on New Orleans= jazz scene past and present with interviews of prominent musicians such as Danny Barker, Pud Brown, and Louis Nelson, among others. Producer: WYES, Channel 12. Director: Evelyn Navarro and Seth Weinstein.

Pud also appears in the classic movie Elmer Gantry

Pud Brown TV show

Dixie Show Boat 1950's

Peter Potter 1950's
P.M. Magazine 1980's
Chanel 12 interview (Job & Home) 1980's

Pud also played 1st & 2nd Dixieland Jubilee 1950's Pete Daily the Shrine Auditorium in L.A. Cal.

Pasadena Civic Aud. with Les Brown and Louis Armstrong. 1951

Classic Capitol Jazz Sessions (#170),