Trumpet

Clifford Brown

(1930–1956)

United States

Clifford Brown (1930–1956) — Trumpet. Led Clifford Brown and Max Roach, Study in Brown. Worked with Max Roach, Harold Land, Richie Powell.

Warm, round tone — you are astonished that a trumpet can sing this way. His phrases flow without interruption, youth and energy made directly audible. He died in a car accident at 25. When you listen to the recordings he left behind, you feel the cruelty of time.

Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet album co-led by Clifford Brown

Clifford Brown and Max Roach

Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet · 1954

Study in Brown

Clifford Brown · 1955

Saxophone Colossus

Sonny Rollins · 1956

The 1954–56 Clifford BrownClifford Brownクリフォード・ブラウン-Max RoachMax Roachマックス・ローチ Quintet refined bebop's vocabulary to a peak of elegance. When Brownie died at 26 in 1956, the abrupt end left Rollins asking what to do next — a question that produced Saxophone ColossusSaxophone ColossusSonny Rollins · 1956.

Max Roach

Sonny Rollins

Clifford Brown's albums

Clifford BrownClifford Brownクリフォード・ブラウン died in a car accident in 1956 at age 25. The quality and quantity of what he recorded in just four years of professional activity is staggering — alongside Chet Baker he defined the sound of 1950s bebop trumpet.

— Clifford Brown: The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter, Nick Catalano, 2000

Clifford Brown's albums

Way Out West

Sonny Rollins · 1957

Way Out WestWay Out WestSonny Rollins · 1957 (1957) was Rollins's deliberate choice to go pianoles. Recorded in Los Angeles with West Coast heavyweights Ray Clifford BrownClifford Brownクリフォード・ブラウン and Shelly Manne. Without a chordal instrument, every line Rollins played was completely exposed.

Sonny Rollins

Clifford Brown's albums

Clifford Brown's videos

The Yussef DayesYussef Dayesユセフ・デイズ Experience performs in Joshua RedmanJoshua Redmanジョシュア・レッドマン Tree National Park, presented by Soulection and released via Clifford BrownClifford Brownクリフォード・ブラウンswood Recordings.

— The Yussef Dayes Experience - Live at Joshua Tree, 2022

Yussef Dayes

Videos featuring Clifford Brown

Sonny RollinsSonny Rollinsソニー・ロリンズ joined the Clifford BrownClifford Brownクリフォード・ブラウン/Max RoachMax Roachマックス・ローチ Quintet in late 1955, replacing Harold Land. Though cut short by Brown's fatal car accident in June 1956, the band dramatically expanded Rollins's improvisational vocabulary.

— Clifford Brown: The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter, Nick Catalano, 2000

Sonny Rollins

Max Roach

In 1954 Max RoachMax Roachマックス・ローチ and Clifford BrownClifford Brownクリフォード・ブラウン formed their quintet in Los Angeles. Combining lyrical melodicism with rigorous rhythmic design, the band bridged East Coast intellect and West Coast polish.

— Clifford Brown: The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter, Nick Catalano, 2000

Max Roach

On June 26, 1956, Clifford BrownClifford Brownクリフォード・ブラウン died at age 25 in a car crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, along with pianist Richie Powell and his wife. Brownie's clean-living reputation made his loss especially devastating to the jazz community.

— Clifford Brown: The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter, Nick Catalano, 2000

Clifford BrownClifford Brownクリフォード・ブラウン's trumpet was prized for its luminous tone, inherited from Fats Navarro, and flawless technique. His 1954 originals 'Joy Spring' and 'Daahoud' remain standards in the jazz repertoire.

— Clifford Brown: The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter, Nick Catalano, 2000