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.

Artist:  Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet

Title:  At Basin Street (2021)

Genre:  Jazz, Bebop, Hard Bop, Jazz Instrument, Trumpet Jazz

Label:  20th Century Masterworks

Rating:   *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side A:

 1.  What Is This Thing Called Love? (7:33)

 2.  Love Is A Many Splendored Thing (4:17)

 3.  I'll Remember April (9:13)

Side B:

 1.  Powell's Prances (3:28)

 2.  Time (5:03)

 3.  The Scene Is Clean (6:05)

 4.  Gertrude's  Bounce (4:09)

Bonus Track:

 5.  I Feel A Song Coming On (5:15)

Personnel:

Clifford Brown:  Trumpet

Sonny Rollins:  Tenor Saxophone

Richie Powell:  Piano, Celesta

George Morrow:  Double Bass

Max Roach:  Drums

At Basin Street is a 1956 album by Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet, originally released in 1956 by EmArcy Records, remastered and reissued in 2021 by 20th Century Masterworks.  Limited Edition 180 Gram Colored Blue Vinyl.