Steve Brown and Friends

Steve Brown’s been playing drums in Knoxville for more than 25 years, most notably with Hector Qirko, R.B. Morris, Terry Hill, and the rock and R&B combos the Curb Feelers, Bluefish, and Crawdaddy, and the klezmer band Dor L’Dor. This weekend, he’s finally stepping into the spotlight as a bandleader with the release of his first CD, Within, recorded with a handful of friends and family members and featuring 13 compositions that Brown’s been working on since he was an undergraduate at the University of Tennessee’s jazz program in the 1970s.