Paul H. Brown

Paul H. Brown (March 6, 1934 – May 6, 2016), also known as PB, was an American Jazz bassist. Brown was born in Balitmore, MD and is best-known as the founder of the Monday Night Jazz Series in Hartford, CT. The Monday Night Jazz Series was recognized by the Library of Congress as the oldest and longest running free jazz festival in the United States. He was also the Founder of the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz, as well as co-founder of Hartford's Artists Collective, Inc.

After leaving Johns Hopkins Medical School, he toured with a number of well-known Jazz musicians, including Lloyd Price and Count Basie. Under Brown's leadership the Hartford-based festival attached numerous well-known Jazz artists to perform, including Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Cannonball Adderley. Brown also taught at University of Hartford as well as the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. Brown died suddenly at the age of 82 on May 6, 2016.

Brown was born in Baltimore, Maryland on March 6, 1934. He grew up in Severn, Maryland and studied at the Peabody Conservatory of Music before attending Morgan State University and Johns Hopkins University as a pre-med student. He left school due to lack of finances as well as desire to pursue a career in music.

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