Artist:Clifford Brown
Song:Confirmation
Album:The Complete Blue Note And Pacific Jazz Recordings
I've talked about Clifford Brown before. He's one of my all time favourite trumpet players and of course he died tragically in a car accident in Pennsylvania on June 26, 1956 at age 25. This 4CD box set is one of two you probably want to get for his essential recordings. The other would feature his EmArcy recordings with Max Roach. This box set covers recordings Brown made as a leader for Pacific Jazz along with recordings with Lou Donaldson & JJ Johnson on Blue Note. It also includes a complete live set with a pre-Jazz Messengers Art Blakey from 1954. This version of Charlie Parker's Confirmation closes that date and this box set. Lou Donaldson is on alto sax and Horace Silver is on piano. Fifty years later Brownie's music is still as good as anything you're ever going to hear. He was brilliant and his death is one of the great tragedies of modern music. There's only one known video clip of Clifford Brown and that's this clip from the Soupy Sales show in 1956.
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