“One of bluegrass’s great banjo players, Brown is most notable for integrating jazz’s musical complexity with the bucolic mannerisms of bluegrass.” --The Village Voice

Veteran of the Alison Krauss Band and Michelle Shocked’s group, not to mention a career in investment banking, Alison Brown has been taking the banjo to new neighborhoods. Recording on her own Compass Records, Brown favors jazz and Latin grooves on this most traditional of Appalachian instruments. She creates, in the words of the Philadelphia Daily News, a “seamless synthesis of hoedown, Celtic and jazz.”

In collaboration with Béla Fleck, she won the 2000 Grammy for Best Country Instrumental Performance. She participated in Alison Krauss’s Grammy-winning album I’ve Got a Feeling, and received a Grammy nomination for her own Simple Pleasures and Fair Weather. And she has been honored as Banjo Player of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association.

Her latest release, Stolen Moments, “strikes a comfortable pose between homey twang and sophisticated jazz... It might rile purists of both types, but it makes a lovely sound for the rest of us.” -- Time Out NY

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