Clifford Brown: Trumpet

Clifford Brown going for it

Busy today with literature.  It's a glorious burden.  Only stopped in to tell you that Clifford Brown is spinning.  One of the greatest trumpet players of all time.  Perhaps you've never heard of him.  There are several cliches in jazz and Clifford fits the bill on two of them:

1. He/she was under-appreciated as a musician.
2. He/she died before their time.

As mentioned yesterday, we dwell on the positive here.  Clifford Brown's trumpet playing is intense, smooth and extremely inventive so let's not talk about how his life ended on that rainy night. Instead let's talk about the fact that he put out some of the finest jazz of the 1950s.

Listen here and prepare to be converted.