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Roland Kirk: A Quote From Clifford Brown (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music October 17, 08

I Talk with the Spirits is Roland Kirk's only all-flute recording, aside from the occasional cuckoo clock or mus...

Clifford Brown: Stardust (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

The album Clifford Brown With Strings has an interesting ‘behind the scenes’ tale, if we look to his widow LaRue Brow...

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Clifford Brown-Max Roach: Good Bait (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

When Harold Land left the quintet in November 1955 to tend to an ailing grandmother in California (he also missed his...

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Clifford Brown-Max Roach: Blues Walk (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

When the Max Roach-Clifford Brown Quintet formed in the spring of 1954, Sonny Stitt was its first saxophone player. ...

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J.J. Johnson (with Clifford Brown): Turnpike (alternate take) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

June of 1953 was a very busy and prolific month for Clifford Brown. Having recently left the Blue Flames, he was wor...

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Clifford Brown: Joy Spring (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Unlike 16th-century conquistador Ponce de León, Clifford Brown actually found the mythical Fountain of Youth. One swi...

Clifford Brown: Easy Living (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

While there is much injustice in the world, the death of Clifford Brown reads like a truly bad dream. Twenty-five yea...

Max Roach-Clifford Brown: Love Is A Many Splendored Thing (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 15, 09

Clifford Brown And Max Roach At Basin Street is one of the albums that I played along with the most when I was younge...

Clifford Brown: Brownie Speaks (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

Although initially indebted to Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown quickly forged a personal style that has influenced count...

Clifford Brown & Max Roach: What is This Thing Called Love (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

Clifford Brown had it all—all the range a trumpeter could wish for, a powerful and rich tone and infallible technique...

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Clifford Brown: Yesterdays (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 28, 08

Those who don't like brass with strings (and that includes many jazz buffs) should be assuaged: Clifford Brown with S...

Clifford Brown: Willow Weep for Me (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 29, 08

Clifford Brown doesn't even have to take a chorus to be one of the greatest jazz trumpet players of all times. Here, ...

Clifford Brown: Joy Spring (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

Less than a month after the historic February 1954 A Night At Birdland session with Art Blakey, Brownie found himself...

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Clifford Brown: Easy Living (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

This was Brownie’s first date as a leader for Blue Note Records and came about after Brown’s outstanding playing on t...

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Max Roach-Clifford Brown: (I Don't Stand) A Ghost Of A Chance (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

This is the second day of studio recording for the EmArcy label by what most would term the “classic” Brown-Roach Qui...

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Clifford Brown-Sarah Vaughan: September Song (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

Sarah Vaughan met and heard Brownie while he was a member of Chris Powell and His Five Blue Flames, and claimed to ha...

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Clifford Brown & Max Roach: Delilah (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

Brown & Roach hitch the Biblical temptress’ slithery theme from Victor Young’s score for C.B. (Cast of Thousands!) De...

Clifford Brown-Lionel Hampton: Gryce Suite, Brown Skin (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

Brownie met and jammed with some members of the 1953 Lionel Hampton Orchestra in Atlantic City while he was playing a...

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Clifford Brown-Art Blakey: Blues (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

Upon his release from the Hampton Band in December 1953, Brownie found employment wherever he could—most notably with...

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Clifford Brown & Max Roach: Land's End (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

The Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet was one the premier hard-bop ensembles, with both trumpeter Brown and drummer Ro...

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