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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...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: AL HOOD SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL CLIFFORD BROWN TRACKS

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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 & 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 & Max Roach: Sandu (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

From his recording debut on March 21, 1952 to his tragic death on June 26, 1956, Clifford Brown executed some of the ...

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 & Max Roach: Cherokee (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 27, 07

The clarity of ideas and ease of execution of Max Roach’s playing warrant his reputation as one of jazz’s most influe...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT MOMENTS IN MODERN JAZZ DRUMMING

Transitions and developments at the drumset have been an essential driving force throughout the history of jazz. Fro...

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 & 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...

Clifford Brown & Max Roach: Take The 'A' Train (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 15, 09

Of the four studio albums by the Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet (including “Sonny Rollins Plus 4”), “Study In Brown...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRAIN TRACKS

For big bands in the thirties, trains were the logical upgrade from the drudgery of the band bus. Airplanes wer...

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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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...

Max Roach: Valse Hot (1957) (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

Max Roach waltzes with Sonny Rollins again a year after they'd twice recorded "Valse Hot" at more plodding tempos. At...

Max Roach: Lover (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Like Dave Brubeck's 1955 "Lover," this track sticks exclusively to waltz meter. These cats, however, are card-carryin...

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Jazz has always relied on popular songs to connect quickly with an audience. In return, jazz has helped keep alive ...

Max Roach: Blues Waltz (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 12, 08

This edition of Roach's quintet doesn't get the same attention that his earlier band with Clifford Brown has received...

Sonny Rollins: Pent-Up House (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 16, 09

Sonny Rollins' "Pent Up House" fuses both the calm simplicity of the blues and the frantic feeling of bebop. Rollins...

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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Artie Shaw: Sweet Lorraine (Rating: 79/100) posted in Music May 27, 08

This Lorraine is too sweet for my taste. The string arrangement creates a genteel, afternoon-tea type of mood. List...

Franklin, Henry (C.) "Skipper" posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Franklin, Henry (C.) "Skipper"; bass; b. 1 Oct. 1940, Los Angeles. His father was Sammy Franklin, a well known trumpe...

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, ...

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