Clifford Brown

Clifford Brown (1930-1956) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer from Wilmington, Delaware. He was a leading hard bop player, and is best known for the quintet he co-led with drummer Max Roach in the mid-1950s and for his tunes Joy Spring, Daahoud and Sandu, which became jazz standards. He died in a car crash at 25. Clifford Brown recorded for Blue Note with J. J. Johnson and with Art Blakey's quintet on A Night at Birdland (1954), and worked with Tadd Dameron, Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughan.