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This inclusion was written as an add-on to the Marshall Brown page.....

Marshall Brown was also a High School Band Director leading the Farmingdale New York 'Daler' band from the early 1950's through the 1960's. Brown was the first High School band director to initiate a jazz education program, which he did in his tenure at Farmingdale High. By 1956 his stage band(jazz big band)was so formidable and impressive(boasting future jazz stars Michael Abene on piano, Andrew Marsala, saxophone, and whiz drummer Larry Ramsden)that one night at the'56 Newport Jazz Festival, Count Basie, late for his appearance, as he entered the festival grounds heard the Daler band performing their set and exclaimed, "Damn, they started already", mistaking the 'Dalers' for his band!