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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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If you like Parker and Gillespie, you can look at this as a more lyrical version of their music; if you're into Blakey's Jazz Messengers, you can look into this as a more subtle version of their usual hard-drive (and their occasional overdrive - which is still more than fine with me). But, first and foremost, if you want my opinion, you should look at this as a great jazz group, with one of the best drummers and one of the best trumpet players I have heard so far working brilliantly with a group of other quite accomplished players, of very compatible style...
Namely, this is a FIVE STAR jazz affair; I can't thank Max Roach enough for inviting Clifford Brown to work with him... Brown combines the best elements of Gillespie's and Miles Davis' playing, Roach is in the class of his own.
And to think that among all the irreverent and selfish drug-addicts who played on the jazz scene at the time it was clean and polite Brown who died in that terrible car crash with Powell and, if I remember correctly, Powell's wife...
Namely, this is a FIVE STAR jazz affair; I can't thank Max Roach enough for inviting Clifford Brown to work with him... Brown combines the best elements of Gillespie's and Miles Davis' playing, Roach is in the class of his own.
And to think that among all the irreverent and selfish drug-addicts who played on the jazz scene at the time it was clean and polite Brown who died in that terrible car crash with Powell and, if I remember correctly, Powell's wife...
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By Angus
Format:Audio CD
While he might not be a household name, Clifford Brown was - I believe - one of the best jazz trumpeters ever to have played, up there with the likes of Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard and Lee Morgan, players people are inclined to make much more noise about, but none of whom, I don't think, ever surpassed Brown's charismatic and joyful sound.
After Brown died in a car crash at the age of only 27, Dizzy Gillespie went as far as to describe the day as a fatal blow for jazz. It's understandable why Gillespie felt this way - Brown was not only a virtuouso player, he had incredible soul and subtlety, as well as stunning speed and style. Add to that that he was also a composer in his own right, with a very distinctive quality to his work.
This album with Roach has some lovely tracks: "Sandu", for instance, has that classic Brown sound; "George's Dillema" is a funked out kind of "Afro-jazz" number, with Roach doing his stuff on drums; "Take the A Train" and the others all have great melodies that Brown plays with wonderfully.
If your new to CB, or you know some of his other stuff, this is a lovely album to own. I first encountered his stuff in Budapest of all places, found an old LP of him and Max Roach, and I listened to it again and again. Got me back into jazz in fact, which can only be a good thing.
By Jazzrook
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Trumpeter Clifford Brown(1930-1956) and drummer Max Roach(1924-2007) co-led this marvellous quintet in the mid-'50s with Harold Land(tenor sax); Richie Powell(piano) & George Morrow(bass).
The nine swinging tracks were recorded on February 23 & 25, 1955 and feature six originals and three standards. Highlights include 'Cherokee', Brown's 'Sandu' and an impressive version of Billy Strayhorn's 'Take The "A" Train'.
'Study in Brown' contains some of the finest small group modern jazz of the 1950s and is an ideal introduction to the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet.
The nine swinging tracks were recorded on February 23 & 25, 1955 and feature six originals and three standards. Highlights include 'Cherokee', Brown's 'Sandu' and an impressive version of Billy Strayhorn's 'Take The "A" Train'.
'Study in Brown' contains some of the finest small group modern jazz of the 1950s and is an ideal introduction to the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet.
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