realize that... Free jazz is closer to African beats than bop or swing were; African rhythm is very complex." "My reference is the blues, and that's where my music comes from. I do listen to music of other cultures, but I just find them interesting. I don't have to borrow from them. My music and my past are rich enough. B.B. King is my Ravi Shankar". Discography As leader 1966: Marion Brown Quartet (ESP-Disk/Fontana) 1967: Juba-Lee (Fontana) 1967: Three for Shepp (Impulse!) 1967: Porto Novo (Arista) 1968: Why Not? (ESP-Disk) 1968: Gesprächsfetzen with Gunter Hampel (Calig) 1968: Le Temps Fou with Gunter Hampel, Ambrose Jackson, Steve McCall, and Barre Phillips (Polydor) 1969: In Sommerhausen with Gunter Hampel and Jeanne Lee (Calig) 1970: Afternoon of a Georgia Faun (ECM) 1973: Soundways with Elliott Schwartz (Bowdoin College Music Press) 1973: Geechee Recollections (Impulse!) 1974: Sweet Earth Flying (Impulse!) 1975: Creative Improvisation Ensemble with Leo Smith (Freedom) 1975: Duets with Leo Smith and Elliott Schwartz (Freedom) 1975: Vista (Impulse!) 1976: Awofofora (Discomate) 1977: Wildflowers 2 (The New York Loft Jazz Sessions) (Douglas / Casablanca); Brown appears on one track; reissued in 1999 by Knit Classics on Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions – Complete 1977: Zenzile Featuring Marion Brown (Baystate) 1977: La Placita / Live in Willisau (Timeless Muse) 1977: Solo Saxophone (Sweet Earth) 1978: Reeds 'n Vibes with Gunter Hampel (Improvising Artists) 1978: Passion Flower (Baystate) 1979: Soul Eyes (Baystate) 1979: November Cotton Flower (Baystate) 1979: 79118 Live (DIW) 1980: Back to Paris (Freelance) 1982: Solo Saxophone (Yale University, 1981) (Other Ear) 1983: Gemini (Birth) 1985: Recollections (Creative Works) 1986: Songs of Love and Regret with Mal Waldron (Freelance) 1988: Much More with Mal Waldron (Freelance) 1993: Offering (Venus) 1993: Gemini + play Sun Ra "live" in concert with Gunter Hampel (Birth) 1993: Mirante Do Vale ~ Offering II (Venus) 2000: Echoes Of Blue (Double Moon) 2016: Five Improvisations (B.Free) 2018: Live At The Black Musicians' Conference, 1981 with Dave Burrell (NoBusiness) 2019: Capricorn Moon to Juba Lee Revisited (ezz-thetics) 2020: Why Not? Porto Novo! Revisited (ezz-thetics) As sideman With Harold Budd The Pavilion of Dreams (Editions EG, 1976) Luxa (All Saints, 1996) With John Coltrane Ascension (Impulse!, 1965) With Stanley Cowell Regeneration (Strata-East, 1976) With Burton Greene Burton Greene Quartet (ESP Disk, 1966) With The Group (Ahmed Abdullah, Brown, Billy Bang, Sirone, Fred Hopkins, Andrew Cyrille) Live (No Business Records,