I Remember Clifford (album)

I Remember Clifford
I Remember Clifford
Studio album by Arturo Sandoval
Released	March 1992
Studio	Sound on Sound (New York City, New York)
Genre	Be-bop jazz
Length	61:51
Label	GRP
Producer	Rudy Pérez Carl Griffin; Papito Hernández; Arturo Sandoval;
Arturo Sandoval chronology

I Remember Clifford is a 1992 album by Arturo Sandoval, the second album he made after leaving his native Cuba.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
DownBeat	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[3]
Vox	^[4]

The entire album is a tribute to Clifford Brown, who was a great influence on Sandoval and who died in an auto accident in 1956, when he was 25 years old.

Title

The album is named for Clifford Brown,^[3] who was killed on June 26, 1956, in a car accident which also killed pianist Richie Powell, and Powell's wife.^[5]

Sandoval's written tribute to Brown in the liner notes for the album ends:

Everybody that I've spoken to, who knew Brownie, coincided in describing his heart and his simplicity as an artist. Modesty, feelings, dignity and virtuosity; not a bad legacy. ... It is with all my heart and soul that I offer this sincere effort to one of the greatest trumpet players of all time; a man who left his mark as a person and as an artist.

The album is named after the composition "I Remember Clifford", a threnody by Benny Golson, which was also written in memory of Brown.

In addition to a rendition of the Golson piece (using only a trumpet and piano - a tribute to the two musicians who died together), the album contains a long list of Brown's best-known standards (some composed by Brown himself). One final inclusion is a new composition, "I Left This Space for You", written by Sandoval in tribute, in which Sandoval plays only a restrained melody.

One very unusual feature, heard on five of the tracks, is the use of overdubbing to create a trumpet 'choir' of four harmonized trumpets, all played by Sandoval (a concept credited to Orlando 'Papito' Hernández, who had experience with multiple trumpets from his time playing with Herb Alpert). The 'choir' is used to play arrangements of some of Brown's own solos; the different trumpet lines are closely synchronized. Sandoval's own playing features in his own solos, especially on "Cherokee", which he takes at a faster pace than Brown's own rapid original.

The album received two nominations in the 1992 Grammy Awards ('Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Individual or Group', and 'Best Arrangement on an Instrumental', for "Cherokee"). It was picked by critic Leonard Feather as one of the ten best jazz albums of 1992.

Track listing

"Daahoud" (Brown) - 4:57
"Joy Spring" (Brown) - 5:42
"Parisian Thoroughfare" (Bud Powell) - 5:57
"Cherokee" (Ray Noble) - 5:07
"I Remember Clifford" (Benny Golson) - 4:11
"The Blues Walk" (Brown) - 6:45
"Sandu" (Brown) - 5:17
"I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) - 5:11
"Jordu" (Duke Jordan) - 8:25
"Caravan" (Ellington, Mills, Tizol) - 4:26
"I Left This Space for You" (Sandoval) - 5:53

Personnel

Performers

Arturo Sandoval – trumpet, flugelhorn, arrangements (5, 11)
Kenny Kirkland – acoustic piano
Félix Gómez – keyboards (5)
Charnett Moffett – bass
Kenny Washington – drums
Ernie Watts – tenor saxophone (1, 4, 7, 9, 10)
Ed Calle – tenor saxophone (2)
David Sánchez – tenor saxophone (3, 6, 8)
Gary Lindsay – arrangements (1-4, 6-8, 10)
Alberto Naranjo – arrangements (9)

Production

Dave Grusin – executive producer
Larry Rosen – executive producer
Rudy Peréz – producer, recording, digital mixing
Carl Griffin – producer (1-4, 6-10)
Papito Hernández – producer (1-4, 6-10)
Arturo Sandoval – producer (5, 11), liner notes
Peter Beckerman – assistant engineer
Andy Roshberg – assistant engineer
Charles Dye – mix assistant
Michael Bloom – liner notes coordination
Joseph Doughney – post-production
Michael Landy – post-production
Adam Zelinka – post-production
The Review Room (New York, NY) – post-production location
Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound (New York, NY)
Michael Pollard – production coordinator
Doreen Kalcich – production coordinating assistant
Bo Post – album coordinator
Andy Baltimore – creative director
David Gibb – graphic design
Scott Johnson – graphic design
Sonny Mediana – graphic design
Andy Ruggirello – graphic design
Dan Serrano – graphic design
Emil Bogan – graphic design assistant
Carol Weinberg – photography
Chuck Stewart – black & white photography
Michael Bloom – liner notes coordination
Neil Tesser – liner notes

References

^ link
^ DownBeat (June 1992) p. 35.
^ ^a ^b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (1992). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP & Cassette (1st ed.). Penguin. pp. 955–956. ISBN 978-0-14-015364-4.
^ Vox (December 1992) p. 97.)
^ Catalano, Nick (2000). Clifford Brown – The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514400-0.

External links

[1] ^ link

[2] DownBeat (June 1992) p. 35.

[Penguin-3] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (1992). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP & Cassette (1st ed.). Penguin. pp. 955–956. ISBN 978-0-14-015364-4.

[4] Vox (December 1992) p. 97.)

[5] Catalano, Nick (2000). Clifford Brown – The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514400-0.

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