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 of two modern Jazz masters such as trumpeter Clifford Brown and drummer Max Roach the quintet shines through a fine set of classic standards, including "Stompin' at the Savoy", Cole Porter's "I Get a Kick out of You" and a couple of Brown-Roach origin…