Clifford Brown

Artist:  Clifford Brown
Born:  October 30, 1930. Wilmington, Delaware, USA
Died:  June 26, 1956 (Aged 25).  Bedford, Pennsylvania, USA
Genre:  Jazz, Bebop, Hard Bop, Jazz Instrument, Trumpet Jazz
Occupation:  Musician, Composer
Instruments:  Trumpet

Clifford Brown was an American Jazz Trumpeter.  He had a considerable influence on later Jazz Trumpet Player, including Donald Byrd, Lee Morgan, Booker Little Arturo Sandoval and Freddie Hubbard.  He was also a composer of note:  two of his compositions, "Joy Spring" and "Daa

houd", have become Jazz Standards.  He won the Down Beat critics' Poll for the "New Star of the Year" in 1954, he was inducted into the Down Beat "Jazz Hall Of Fame" in 1972 in the critics' Poll.  He died at the age of 25 in a car accident.

Artist:  Clifford Brown, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach
Title:  Three Giants  (Limited Edition)
Genre:  Jazz, Bebop, Hard Bop, Jazz Instrument, Trumpet Jazz
Label:  Jazz Images
Rating:  *****

Tracks:

 1.  Valse Hot  (8:37)
 2.  Kiss And Run  (7:09)
 3.  I Feel A Song Coming On  (5:15)
 4.  Count Your Blessings  (2:33)
 5.  Pent-Up House  (8:54)

Bonus Tracks:  Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street, New York, January 4 7 February 16, 1956

 6.  What Is This Thing Called Love?  (7:33)
 7.  Love Is A Many Splendored Thing  (4:17)
 8.  I'll Remember April  (9:13)
 9.  Powell's Prances  (3:28)
10. Time  (5:03)
11. The Scene Is Clean  (6:05)
12. Gertrude's Bounce  (4:09)
13. Step Lightly (Junior's Arrival)  (3:33)

Personnel:

Clifford Brown:  Trumpet
Sonny Rollins:  Tenor Saxophone
Richie Powell:  Piano
George Morrow:  Bass
Max Roach:  Drums

Three Giants is the collection album by Clifford Brown, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach, originally released by Prestige Records), digitally remastered and released on May 25, 2018 by Jazz Images, featuring Sonny Rollins, Max Roach, Richie Powell, and George Morrow.