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Pete Brown (jazz musician)

American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (1906–1963)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 13, 2024
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

James Ostend "Pete" Brown was an American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader.

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The public source identifies “Pete Brown (jazz musician)” as american jazz saxophonist and bandleader (1906–1963). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pete, Brown and jazz.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 12-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Pete, Brown and jazz providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Pete Brown (jazz musician)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.