Clifford Brown
Clifford Benjamin Brown (October 30, 1930 – June 26, 1956) was an American jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer. He died at the age of 25 in a car crash, leaving behind four years' worth of recordings. His compositions "Sandu", "Joy Spring", and "Daahoud" have become jazz standards. Brown won the DownBeat magazine Critics' Poll for New Star of the Year in 1954; he was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1972.
Genre: jazz, hard-bop, bebop, cool-jazz
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Top Tracks
- Minority - Master Take
- Strictly Romantic
- Salute to the Band Box - Master Take
- Baby - Master Take
- No Start, No End
- Stompin' At The Savoy
- Delilah
- Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
- Easy Livin
- Easy Livin
- Tiny Capers
- Embraceable You
- What Is This Thing Called Love
- Embraceable You
- Pent-Up House
- Lullaby Of Birdland - Alternate Take
- It's Crazy
- I'm Glad There Is You
- Embraceable You
- You're Not The Kind
Albums (41)
- Get Your Act Together b/w Special Lady (2025)
- IF I LOVE AGAIN (2025)
- Back To Black: Songs From The Original Motion Picture (2024)
- Clifford Brown & The Ladies of Jazz. Complete Recordings (2022)
- Sarah Vaughan-With Clifford Brown (2019)
- Gigi Gryce - Clifford Brown Sextet (Jazz Connoisseur) (2016)
- Brownie Speaks: The Complete Blue Note Recordings (2014)
- West Coast Suite (2012)
- Jordu (feat. Max Roach) (2012)
- The Singers Sessions With Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan And Helen Merrill: The EmArcy Master Takes (Vol. 2) (2012)
- The Emarcy Master Takes (Vol. 1) (2009)
- At The Cotton Club 1956 (2007)
- Jordu (1970)
- RTL Clifford Brown (1970)
- The Definitive Clifford Brown (2002)
- Memorial Album (Remastered / Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (2001)
- Jazz Immortal (Remastered / Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (2001)
- Finest Hour: Clifford Brown (2000)
- Ultimate Clifford Brown (1998)
- The Best Of Clifford Brown (1998)
- Clifford Brown With Strings (1998)
- Verve Jazz Masters 44: Max Roach, Clifford Brown (1995)
- Alone Together: The Best Of The Mercury Years (1994)
- Jazz 'Round Midnight: Clifford Brown (1993)
- Jazz 'Round Midnight: Ballads (1993)
- In Concert! (1992)
- Clifford Brown And Max Roach At Basin Street (Expanded Edition) (1990)
- Brownie: The Complete EmArcy Recordings Of Clifford Brown (1989)
- Clifford Brown Memorial (1987)
- Live at the Bee Hive (1979)
- Brownie Eyes (1974)
- The Beginning And The End (1970)
- More Study In Brown (1956)
- Study In Brown (1955)
- Sarah Vaughan (1954)
- Clifford Brown And Max Roach (1954)
- Brown And Roach Incorporated (1954)
- The Complete Paris Sessions, Vol. 1 (1953)
- New Faces - New Sounds (1953)
- With The Swedish All Stars Vol. 2 (1970)
- With The Swedish All Stars Vol. 1 (1970)
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