Raymond Lee Brown is an American

United States

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 jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist

Flugelhorn

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. He is best known for being a performer and section leader for Earth, Wind, & Fire Horns from 1987 to 2004. Brown joined Earth, Wind & Fire in 1987 when the band returned from a four-year hiatus from the music industry. In 2004, he retired from the band.

Since 2004, trumpeter Robert (Bobby) Burns, Jr., has assumed the role with Earth, Wind, and Fire. Burns graduated from Horace Mann High School, Gary, Indiana

Gary, Indiana

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, in 1973; and he earned a Bachelor of Music

Bachelor of Music

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, with a major in Trumpet, from the Jacobs School of Music

Jacobs School of Music

The Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, is a music conservatory established in 1921. Until 2005, it was known as the Indiana University School of Music...

in 1983.