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"About Clifford Brown, I’ll put it like this. If any musician of the present day can be compared to Parker, it’s Clifford. I can honestly say that he is the most unblossomed talent of this generation." -Quincy Jones, 1953. Happy Birthday, Clifford Brown! Thanks Jazz at Lincoln Center

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#NowPlaying Max Rroach & Clifford Brown Quintet - Clifford's Axe/from the album “In Concert“ (1956) Clifford Brown - trumpet Max Roach - drums Teddy Edwards - tenor saxophone Carl Perkins - piano George Breadsaw - double bass https://t.co/YfHJtaP0MP @YouTube #Jazz

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Clifford Brown was only twenty-five years old when he died, but even then was already known as one of the greatest trumpet players in jazz. An undisputed virtuoso, he played with seeming ease in every register of the instrument, spinning out long, intricate solos that often sounded less like improvisations than compositions. Dizzy Gillespie claimed that Brown changed the way that the trumpet was played. Even Philip Larkin, who found listening to bebop comparable to “drinking a quinine…

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Jazz musician Clifford Brown's bio, concert & touring information, albums, reviews, videos, photos and more.

Art Blakey with Percy Heath (left) at a rehearsal for "Clifford Brown Sextet" session, NYC, August 1953. Photo: Francis Wolff

Shop the 2005 Spain CD release of Brownie Lives! (Live At Basin Street And In Concert At Carnegie Hall) by Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Discogs.

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Brownie! Celebrating the life of jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown. Includes a short biography, discography, transcribed solos, quotes, photos, and related links.