Born in Montreal, Quebec, Browne moved to Ottawa as a teenager and was playing professionally by the age of eighteen.

[2] His group, the Brian Browne Trio, performed as the house band on the CTV musical variety program The River Inn.

[3] In 1969 Browne appeared as one of four featured pianists, including Bill Evans, Erroll Garner and Marian McPartland, on the CBC television special The Jazz Piano.

[4] Browne recorded with Canadian singer Anne Murray on her albums This Way is My Way and Honey, Wheat and Laughter and appeared on her subsequent CBC television special.

[6] The Brian Browne Trio has included other notable Canadian musicians Skip Beckwith, Donald Vickery, Paul Novotny, Barry Elmes, Michel Donato, and Archie Alleyne.