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Lance Owens Recording Session

MAKING A RECORD: From left, producer Donald Brown, studio boss Allen Smith, drummer Kenny Brown, featured saxophonist Lance Owens, bassist David Slack, and pianist Keith Brown.

Photo by Phil Fuson

MAKING A RECORD: From left, producer Donald Brown, studio boss Allen Smith, drummer Kenny Brown, featured saxophonist Lance Owens, bassist David Slack, and pianist Keith Brown.

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  • Tenor saxophonist Lance Owens
  • Bassist David Slack
  • Drummer Kenny Brown
  • Drummer Danny Taylor
  • Pianist Keith Brown
  • Recording-studio maestro Allen Smith
  • MAKING A RECORD: From left, producer Donald Brown, studio boss Allen Smith, drummer Kenny Brown, featured saxophonist Lance Owens, bassist David Slack, and pianist Keith Brown.
  • Producer Donald Brown
  • Willie Gibbs and the Illusionaires, playing at the Blue Note, an intimate jazz club beside Gordon’s Townhouse on Cumberland Avenue, probably in the early 1960s. Members included, from left, Joe Kishiyama on drums, June Ballinger on bass, Rocky Wynder on sax, Willie Gibbs on piano, Sidney Young on trumpet, sometime drummer Bud Thomas on vocals, and saxophonist Lance Owens at far right in both photos. Young, not a regular member but one who frequently sat in with the band, is still around.
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  • A handbill from C’est Bon, another jazz club on Alcoa Highway, ca. 1958.

The Knoxville jazz saxophone player cuts his first album, produced by Donald Brown.

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