Ray Brown

Note: not to be confused with jazz trumpeter Ray Brown (Raymond Harry Brown) who is also a composer, arranger, and jazz educator.

American session trumpeter, flugelhornist, arranger and orchestrator born and based in Los Angeles, who joined the second official horn-section of Earth, Wind & Fire (1987-1988 period of the "Touch The World" album) and retired from that group in 2004. Before that, he was a member of the modern soul group Madagascar (5) as well as several television orchestras. He has performed or toured with such artists as Brothers Johnson, Quincy Jones, Marvin Gaye, Count Basie, Patrice Rushen, Natalie Cole, Diana Ross, MC Hammer, Yanni and Whitney Houston.