condition (record/cover): NM / NM

Obi and insert included.

The 1954 concert recordings on US GNP Crescendo - Clifford Brown and Max Roach setting the standard for hard bop before the term had even settled. Every element that would define the genre is already here at full strength: the fire-and-logic trumpet, the compositional drums, the band ethic that treated entertainment and art as the same job. Two years later Brownie was gone at twenty-five, and jazz has never entirely stopped mourning - which means every documented note counts double, and the live material counts most of all. A cornerstone of the trumpet literature and of the whole era. US pressing.