1. Jeri Brown grew up in St Louis, where she first appeared in public at age six.
10 Facts About Jeri Brown
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Jeri Brown performed in Ohio with the band of drummer and bandleader Bob McKee.
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Jeri Brown then worked mainly in the jazz scene of the Cleveland area, focused on jazz standard material, wrote lyrics and collaborated with composers such as Henry Butler, Kenny Wheeler, Greg Carter and Cyrus Chestnut.
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In 1991, Brown signed with the Canadian Justin Time label.
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Jeri Brown has been under contract with this label since her debut album Mirage, where she was accompanied by pianist Fred Hersch and bassist Daniel Lessard.
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Jeri Brown sang standards like "Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise" and "You Must Believe in Spring".
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Jeri Brown taught at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Cleveland State University and the University of Akron in Ohio.
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Jeri Brown moved to Canada in 1989, and in the 1990s she taught jazz history, improvisation and vocal technique at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec.
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Jeri Brown taught at McGill University in Montreal, and served as artist-in-residence at St Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia.
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Jeri Brown is a recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr.