Saturday, September 30, 2017

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 "Daahoud", 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.














Title:  Complete Studio Recordings  (2008)
Genre:  Jazz, Bebop, Hard Bop, Jazz Instrument, Trumpet Jazz
Label:  Essential Jazz Classics
Rating:   *****

Tracks:

 1.  Gertrude's Bounce  (4:10)
 2.  Step Lightly (Junior Arrival)  (3:33)
 3.  Powell's Prances  (3:28)
 4.  I'll Remember April  (9:13)
 5.  Time  (5:04)
 6.  The Scene Is Clean  (6:05)
 7.  Flossie Lou  (3:56)
 8.  What Is This Thing Called Love?  (7:33)
 9.  Love Is A Many-Spendored Thing  (4:17)
10. I Feel A Song Coming On  (5:15)
11. Pent-Up House  (8:54)
12. Valse Hot  (8:38)
13. Kiss And Run  (7:09)
14. Count Your Blessings  (2:33)

Personnel:

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

Tracks:  1-9:  Originally Issued as Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street in 1956:

Tracks:  10-14:  Originally Issued as Sonny Rollins Plus Four in 1956:

Complete Studio Recordings is an album selected as one of the 100 Best Jazz Albums Of All Time by Clifford Brown, was released on September 2, 2008 by Essential Recording Classics, from the original recording remastered in 1956, featuring Sonny Rollins, Max Roach, Richie Powell, and George Morrow.


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