Tom Brown, sometimes known by the nickname Red Brown (June 3, 1888 - March 25, 1958), was an early New Orleans dixieland jazz trombonist. He also played string bass professionally.

Tom P. Brown was born in Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana. His younger brother Steve Brown also became a prominent professional musician. He played trombone with the bands of Papa Jack Laine and Frank Christian; by 1910 usually worked leading bands under his own name. The band played in a style then locally known as "hot ragtime" or "ratty music". In early 1915 his band was heard by Vaudeville dancer Joe Frisco, who arranged a job for Brown's band in Chicago, Illinois.

On May 15, 1915, Tom Brown's Band from Dixieland opened up at Lamb's Cafe at Clark & Randolph Streets in Chicago, with Ray Lopez, cornet and manager; Tom Brown, trombone and leader; Gussie Mueller clarinet, Arnold Loyacano piano and string bass; and Billy Lambert on drums. In Chicago Gussie Mueller was hired by bandleader Bert Kelly, and his place was taken by young New Orleans clarinetist Larry Shields.

This band seems to be the first to be popularly referred to as playing "Jazz", or, as it was spelled early on, "Jass". According to Brown, once his band started enjoying popularity the local Chicago musicians union began picketing his band of non-union out-of-towners. One picketer's placards intended to link Brown's band with the Storyville prostitution district of New Orleans and the implied disreputable low life status; the signs read "Don't Patronize This Jass Music". The term "jass" at that time had a sexual connotation. The signs had the opposite of the intended effect; more people came to hear the band out of curiosity as to what "Jass Music" might be and how it could be performed in public. Brown realized the publicity potential and started calling his group "Brown's Jass Band". Some recently rediscovered Chicago newspaper advertisements list it as "Brown's Jab Band" or "Jad Band", confirming the reminscences of Ray Lopez that the bandmembers assumed that "Jass" was too rude a word to be printed in the newspapers so they looked in a dictionary for printable words close to it, like "jade".

Years later, Brown would frequently brag that he led "the first white jazz band" to go up north. Brown's careful wording implies that he was aware that the Original Creole Orchestra preceded him and that they played jazz.

Tom Brown's Band enjoyed over four months of success in Chicago before moving to New York City, where it played for four months more before returning to New Orleans in February of 1916. Upon arriving home Brown immediately started rounding up another band to go back to Chicago with him. The group again included Larry Shields; at the end of October, Brown agreed to switch clarinetists with the Original Dixieland Jass Band bringing Alcide Nunez into his band. Brown, Nunez and New Orleans drummer Ragbaby Stevens then went to work for Bert Kelly, who brought them to New York where they temporarily replaced the Original Dixieland Jass Band at Reisenweber's in 1918. Brown started doing freelance recording work with New York dance and novelty bands, then joined the band of Harry Yerkes. At the start of 1920 he was joined in the Yerkes Band by Alcide Nunez.

Tom Brown also played on Vaudeville in the acts of Joe Frisco and Ed Wynn.

About late 1921 Brown returned to Chicago and joined Ray Miller's Black & White Melody Boys, with whom he made more recordings. During this period he also co-lead a dance band with his brother Steve.

In the mid 1920s he returned home to New Orleans where he played with Johnny Bayersdorffer and Norman Brownlee's bands, making a few excellent recordings.

During the Great Depression he supplemented his income from music by repairing radios. He opened up a music shop and a junk shop on Magazine Street. He played string bass in local swing and dance bands. With the revival of interest in traditional jazz he played in various Dixieland bands in the 1950s, notably that of Johnny Wiggs. A local television station thought it would be a good idea to invite Brown and Nick LaRocca to talk about how jazz first spread north from New Orleans, but the show had scaresly started before the two old men got into an argument that turned into a fist-fight.

Tom Brown made his last recording just weeks before his death, his trombone playing apparently not suffering from the fact that he had neither teeth nor dentures at the time. Brown died in New Orleans.

Tom Brown (1662 - 18 June, 1704) was an English translator and writer of satire, largely forgotten today save for a four-line gibe he wrote concerning Dr John Fell.

Brown was born at either Shifnal or Newport in Shropshire; baptismal records indicate he was christened on 1 January 1663. He took advantage of the free schooling offered in the county during his day by attending Adams' Grammar School, afterwards continuing his education at Christ Church, Oxford and there meeting the college's dean, Dr Fell.

Fell was well-known as a disciplinarian, and Brown throughout his life displayed a disdain for restrictions. The legend behind Brown's most recognised work is therefore plausible: it states that Brown got into trouble while at Oxford, and was threatened with expulsion, but that Dr Fell offered to spare Brown if he could translate an epigram from Martial (I, 33, 1): :Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te.

According to the story, Brown replied without missing a beat: :The reason why I cannot tell; :I do not love thee, Dr Fell.

Fell is said to have stayed Brown's dismissal from the college in admiration of this translation. However the story is of apocryphal provenance, and it is known that Brown left Christ Church without a degree, moving to Kingston upon Thames where he stayed three years as a schoolmaster, and later to London where he took up residence on Aldersgate Street in the Grub Street district.

Brown made a modest living from his writing in Latin, French and English, in addition to offering services of translation. He refrained however from ever attaching himself to a patron, and expressed contempt toward those who did so. He pursued a libertine lifestyle, and his satirical works gained him several enemies in their subjects.

His best-known works, apart from the quatrain, are probably blank">Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London (1700) and Letters from the Dead to the Living (1702), although his writings were quite prolific. Several works of the period whose author is unknown are suspected to be his.

Toward the end of his life he began to regret the licentiousness with which he had lived it, and on his deathbed he secured from his publisher (one Sam Briscoe) a promise that any posthumous works would be censored of "all prophane, undecent passages". The promise was promptly reneged upon.

Many of Brown's works went unpublished until his death, and the publication date of many is in question, as is his stature as a writer. Contemporary opinion was mixed; _Jonathan Swift spoke quite highly of Brown's work, and indeed parts of Gulliver's Travels and other of Swift's works may have been significantly influenced by Brown's writings. On the other hand, those whom Brown mercilessly lampooned during his lifetime understandably did nothing to further his good reputation after his demise.

The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica gives this verdict: "He was the author of a great variety of poems, letters, dialogues and lampoons, full of humour and erudition, but coarse and scurrilous. His writings have a certain value for the knowledge they display of low life in London." Presently the best description of Brown's legacy may be that of Joseph Addison, who accorded him the appellation "T-m Br-wn of facetious Memory".

Brown was buried in the grounds of Westminster Abbey.

Tom Brown (1705 - 1746) was born in Kirkleatham near Stockton. He was a hero of the Battle of Dettingen serving as a private in the 3rd Hussars. Tom had two horses killed under him, and had lost two fingers from his left hand, but when the regiment's standard was captured he galloped into the thickest of fighting and recovered it, receiving eight cuts in his face, head, and neck, as well as two bullets in his back and a cut across his forehead that went down to his right eyebrow. He also had his nose cut off. He was the last man to be knighted on the battlefield.

He died in 1746 in Yarm, and is buried in its church yard in an unmarked grave.

Tom Brown, Jr. (born January 29 1950) is a famous American naturalist and outdoorsman. He is the author of numerous autobiographical books, including The Tracker, and a series of Field Guides. His skills and philosophy were transmitted to him by an Apache man, referred to as Grandfather or Stalking Wolf.

Thomas Tarlton Brown (September 21 1860 - October 25 1927) was an Anglo-American center fielder in Major League Baseball. Born in Liverpool, he played for 17 seasons, a career in which he batted .265 while scoring 1,521 runs with 1,951 hits. Upon his retirement he served as an umpire, working mostly in the National League in 1898 and 1901-1902.

Thomas P. "Tom" Brown, Jr. is an American tennis player who was born in San Francisco, California in 1921. In the 1940s he was one of the best amateur players in the world, losing to Jack Kramer in the finals of both the U.S. Open in 1946 and Wimbledon in 1947. In 1946 he was the Wimbledon mixed-doubles champion with Louise Brough and the men's doubles champion with Jack Kramer.

Kramer wrote in his 1979 autobiography that Brown "was known as 'The Frisco Flailer' (we had nicknames like that in those days), and he was strong off the ground with an excellent running forehand, but he was always my pigeon. I played him seven times, all best of five, and I beat him twenty-one straight sets."

He won the October 1945 version of what is now the SAP Open as Private First Class Tom Brown.

Brown also played in the Davis Cup three times and was ranked as one of the 10 best American players eight times between 1946 and 1958, his highest ranking being No. 4 in 1946. He has won numerous tournaments as a senior player.

Thomas Brown (b. in New York City, New York on January 6, 1913 - d. in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California on June 3, 1990) was a child model then a movie and TV actor.

As a child model from the age of 2, Brown posed as Buster Brown, the Arrow Collar Boy and the Buick boy. As an actor he is probably best remembered for playing The Adventures of Smilin' Jack (serial) and later appearing on Gunsmoke, General Hospital and Days of Our Lives. Brown enlisted in the US Army in World War II where he served as a paratrooper and also served during the Korean War with the 40th Infantry Division (United States) where he reached the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Tom Brown (born December 5, 1936) is a former professional Canadian football player, and a former outstanding American college football player. He played collegiately at the University of Minnesota, and won the Outland Trophy in 1960 as the nation's best lineman. He played professional football with the British Columbia Lions of the Canadian Football League, and was made a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1984. Brown was inducted into College Football Hall of Fame in 2003.

Thomas William Brown (born December 12, 1940 in Laureldale, Pennsylvania) is a former National Football League player. He played defensive back for the Green Bay Packers from 1964-1968 and for the Washington Redskins during the 1969 season. He finished his career with 13 interceptions and six fumble recoveries, including one for a touchdown. He played in the first two Super Bowls while with the Green Bay Packers. He also returned 27 punts and 7 kickoffs. He also played outfield and first base for the Washington Senators in 1963. He played college football for the University of Maryland.

Tom Brown (born 26 October, 1919 in Troon) is a Scottish former professional footballer who spent most of his career with Ipswich Town. He was also a Commando during World War II.