Albums by Clifford Brown
ALBUMRememberedClifford Brown
ALBUMJorduClifford Brown & Max Roach
ALBUMMemorial Album (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition) [Remastered]Clifford Brown
ALBUMClifford Brown And Max Roach At Basin Street (Expanded Edition)Clifford Brown & Max Roach
ALBUMThe Beginning and the EndClifford Brown
ALBUMClifford Brown MemorialClifford Brown
ALBUMClifford Brown with StringsClifford Brown
ALBUMClifford Brown And Max RoachClifford Brown & Max Roach
ALBUMJazz Immortal (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition) [Remastered]Clifford Brown
ALBUMBest Coast JazzClifford Brown
Artist Playlists
Clifford Brown Essentials
His pure, crystalline tone was the envy of every trumpeter of the '50s.
Clifford Brown: The Session Musicians
At turns a sensitive accompanist and a bebop beast.
Clifford Brown: Deep Cuts
The jazz trumpeter was always ahead of his time.
Artist Biography
Other than Miles Davis—in many ways his stylistic foil—Clifford Brown ranks as the most influential jazz trumpeter to emerge in the '50s. His small but crucial catalog of recordings captures lightning in a bottle: the sound of a young prodigy with unprecedented abilities advancing the bebop style and pointing toward a future beyond it. Born in 1930 in Wilmington, DE, Brown honed his trumpet chops by playing in college bands and road-tripping to Philadelphia jam sessions. At the encouragement of Dizzy Gillespie, Brown relocated to New York City in the early '50s, impressing local heavyweights like Charlie Parker and Art Blakey with his warm tone and technically stunning soloing—pyrotechnic without sacrificing fluidity and melodic beauty. His most celebrated recordings are with his quintet co-led by Max Roach; their self-titled 1954 release is a canonical document of the hard-bop era. In one of music’s most harrowing cases of a career ended far too early, Brown died in a car accident in 1956, at the age of 25.
Hometown
Wilmington, DE, United States
Genre
Jazz