The Flyer's music writers tell you where you can go. Of all the celebrated Memphis jazz pianists -- Phineas Newborn Jr. Harold Mabern, Mulgrew Miller, and James Williams chief among them -- Donald Brown may be the last celebrated. That's not because his talent is any less significant, however. It's just that while his fellow ivory ticklers are burning up the New York scene, Brown is living a more sedate life teaching in Knoxville. Raised in Hernando, Mississippi, Brown trained on trumpet and drums before moving on the keyboard. After graduating from Memphis State University, he succeeded fellow Memphian James Williams as the pianist in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, a famous breeding ground for up-and-coming young players such as Wynton and Branford Marsalis. Hampered by arthritis, he left the group in the early '80s and started teaching, first at Berklee College of Music in Boston and presently at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Brown has never stopped playing live or in the studio, however. He has put out a series of solo projects, the most recent being the excellent Cartunes from 1993. Brown will be in town for concerts at the New Daisy this Sunday at 7:30 and 10 p.m. That it is the same date as the Academy Awards, but as the advertisements for these shows say: Tape the Oscars. When we think of the Beethoven Club, images of blue-hairs eating cucumber sandwiches and sipping tea while listening to Satie and Debussy come to mind. That may be less than fair, but we certainly don't imagine experimental post-rock chamber ensembles and their musical meditations on turn-of-the-century sexually graphic Austrian expressionist painters. Nevertheless, this Sunday the Beethoven Club will host just such a show when the Kentucky-based trio Rachel's come to town to perform their song cycle Music for Egon Schiele. The group includes guitarist/bassist Jason Noble, violinist Christian Fredericksen, and pianist Rachel Grimes (the group is named not for Grimes, however, but for Noble's Toyota Corolla). The three banded together in 1994 following the demise of the art rock outfit Rodan. Music for Egon Schiele is a soundtrack composed by Grimes for a theater/dance piece staged by the Itinerant Theater guild in Chicago in 1995, and is a work typical of this group, who blend rock and classical in new and unexpected ways. Opening for Rachel's will be singer/songwriter Shannon Wright. The show will start at 7 p.m. Admission is first come first serve, and a minimum $10 donation is requested. --Mark Jordan You can e-mail Mark Jordan at jordan@memphisflyer.com.