Black, Brown and Beautiful

Black, Brown and Beautiful
Studio album by
Released1970
RecordedOctober 1969
Los Angeles, CA
GenreJazz
LabelFlying Dutchman FDS 116
ProducerBob Thiele
Oliver Nelson chronology
3-2-1-0
(1969)
Black, Brown and Beautiful
(1970)
Zig Zag
(1970)

Black, Brown and Beautiful is an album by American jazz composer/arranger Oliver Nelson featuring performances by a big band recorded in 1969 and first released on the Flying Dutchman label. Selections from the album were released on Nelson's 1976 compilation A Dream Deferred while the title was also used for the CD rerelease of Johnny Hodges album 3 Shades of Blue.