Clifford Brown - All the things you are

Clifford Brown (October 30, 1930 -- June 26, 1956), aka “Brownie,“ was an American jazz trumpeter. He died aged 25 in a car accident,leaving behind only four years’ worth of recordings. Nonetheless, he had a considerable influence on later jazz trumpet players, including Donald Byrd, Lee Morgan, Booker Little, and Freddie Hubbard, among others. He was also a composer of note: two of his compositions, “Joy Spring“ and “Daahoud“ have become jazz standards. He won the Down Beat critics’ poll for the “New Star
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