Browne Sugar

Browne Sugar
Studio album by Tom Browne
Released	1979
Recorded	1979
Studio	A & R Studios (New York City, New York)
Genre	Jazz-funk, funk, soul, jazz
Length	37:39
Label	GRP
Producer	Dave Grusin Larry Rosen
Tom Browne chronology
Browne Sugar (1979) Love Approach (1980)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Browne Sugar is the debut album by Tom Browne. It was released in 1979 on GRP Records and reached number six on the Jazz Albums chart in 1979.

Track listing

1. "Throw Down" (Tom Browne) – 3:56
2. "I Never Was a Cowboy" (Dave Grusin) – 4:24
3. "Herbal Scent" (Marcus Miller) – 5:22
4. "Brother, Brother" (Marcus Miller) – 5:36
5. "The Closer I Get to You" (James Mtume, Reggie Lucas) – 4:38
6. "What's Going On" (Marvin Gaye, Renaldo Benson, Al Cleveland) – 5:13
7. "Promises for Spring" (Tom Browne) – 4:50
8. "Antoinette Like" (Bernard Wright) – 3:40

Personnel

• Tom Browne – trumpet (1-3, 6, 7), flugelhorn (4, 5, 8)
• Dave Grusin – Oberheim Polyphonic Synthesizer (1), electric piano (2, 4-6), clavinet (2, 3), Minimoog (3, 6, 7), percussion (5, 7, 8)
• Rob Mounsey – Oberheim Polyphonic synthesizer programming, Oberheim Polyphonic synthesizer (1)
• Bernard Wright – electric piano (1, 3, 7, 8), acoustic piano (7, 8)
• Ron Dean Miller – guitars (3, 6-8)
• Marcus Miller – bass (1, 3, 7, 8)
• Francisco Centeno – bass (2, 4-6)
• Buddy Williams – drums
• Errol "Crusher" Bennett – percussion (2, 4), congas (4)
• Sue Evans – congas (3, 5, 6-8), percussion (3, 5, 6-8)
• Michael Brecker – tenor saxophone (1)
• Patti Austin – vocals (2, 4-6)
• Vivian Cherry – vocals (2, 4, 6)
• Frank Floyd – vocals (2, 4, 6)
• Zachary Sanders – vocals (2, 4, 6)

Horn and String section

• Dave Grusin – arrangements and conductor
• David Nadien – string concertmaster
• Phil Bodner, Eddie Daniels, Wally Kane and Dave Tofani – horns
• Jonathan Abramowitz, Alfred Brown, Harry Cykman, Max Ellen, Barry Finclair, Louis Gabowitz, Paul Gershman, Harry Glickman, Diana Halprin, Theodore Israel, Charles Libove, Harry Lookofsky, Charles McCraken, David Nadien, Max Pollikoff, Joseph Rabushka, Matthew Raimondi, Herbert Sorkin, Lenore Weinstock and Masako Yanagita – string players

Production

• Dave Grusin – producer, liner notes
• Larry Rosen – producer, recording, mixing, liner notes
• Jim Boyer – recording, mixing
• Bradshaw Leigh – recording assistant, mix assistant
• Peter Lewis – recording assistant
• Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound (New York, NY)
• Donna Putney – GRP production coordinator
• Donn Davenport – art direction
• Maude Gilman – design
• Mario Astorga – photography

Charts

Year	Album	Chart positions [2]
		US	US R&B	Jazz Albums
1979	Browne Sugar	147	50	6

References

1. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r135945/review
2. "Tom Browne US albums chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-06-23.

External links

• Tom Browne-Browne Sugar at Discogs