with them and flautist James Newton. After leading a bi-coastal existence from 1992 to 1996, Brown returned to Berkeley to live with his wife Martha Faller and daughter Aiko Georgia, and complete his PhD in Music. He served as the project director of "Big Bands Behind Barbed Wire: Jazz and Justice", a 1997 federally-funded multimedia educational project on the Japanese American incarceration experience during World War II, which birthed the Asian American Jazz Orchestra. With San Jose Taiko, the orchestra toured nationally and recorded the album Big Bands Behind Barbed Wire. After federal funding ended in 1998, Brown maintained the ensemble as Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra, touring nationally and recording seven CDs. The Asian American Orchestra's interpretation of Duke Ellington’s "Far East Suite" was nominated for a 1999 Grammy award. Their next CD, Monk's Moods was co-produced with Orrin Keepnews, featured Steve Lacy and earned a "Five-Star Masterpiece, Best CDs of 2003" rating by Downbeat magazine. Brown received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 to compose "American Rhapsodies", a reimagining of Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" from a 21st-century Pacific Rim perspective. In 2004, Brown founded his own record label, Water Baby Records, to produce subsequent recordings with the Asian American Orchestra, and in 2005, established Fifth Stream Music as a nonprofit organization to administer his performance and educational activities. Brown's additional performance credits include Cecil Taylor, Max Roach, Pharoah Sanders, Angela Davis, Zakir Hussain, Bobby Hutcherson, poets Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, San Francisco Poet Laureates Janice Mirikitani and Devorah Major, Andrew Hill, Henry Butler, Donald Harrison, Art Davis, Oliver Lake, George Lewis, Kurt Elling, Gerald Veasley, Steve Vai, and Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet. Brown has presented scholarly papers, guest lectures and lecture-demonstrations at the Franz Schubert Conservatory in Vienna, the Academy of Sciences, the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Manhattan School of Music, California Institute for the Arts, Columbia and Stanford University, and most campuses of the University of California. Brown has contributed chapters to books on John Coltrane and Duke Ellington, and in 2023, the California Jazz Conservatory will publish his book, "Give the Drummer Some! The Development of Modern Jazz Drumming", which includes full-score transcriptions of Bebop classic recordings, including "Ko-Ko", "Shaw ‘Nuff", and "Things to Come". Discography As leader/co-leader Ohm: Unit of Resistance – United Front (RPM, 1981) Live In Berlin – United Front (FMP, 1983) Family – Anthony Brown