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.
1983 Japanese re-issue on Blue Note's "BLP 1500 Series" of the 1955 album featuring Charlie Mingus, Clifford Brown , John Lewis and Kenny Clarke. With original sticker.
Recorded at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles in August 1954, this is the first Emarcy recording of the legendary Brown & Roach Quintet featuring the great Harold Land on tenor sax, Richie Powell on piano and George Morrow on bass. Under the direction o…