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Clifford Brown-Max Roach: Good Bait (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

When Harold Land left the quintet in November 1955 to tend to an ailing grandmother in California (he also missed his...

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Max Roach-Clifford Brown: Love Is A Many Splendored Thing (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 15, 09

Clifford Brown And Max Roach At Basin Street is one of the albums that I played along with the most when I was younge...

Max Roach-Clifford Brown: (I Don't Stand) A Ghost Of A Chance (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

This is the second day of studio recording for the EmArcy label by what most would term the “classic” Brown-Roach Qui...

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Clifford Brown: Joy Spring (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Unlike 16th-century conquistador Ponce de León, Clifford Brown actually found the mythical Fountain of Youth. One swi...

Clifford Brown & Max Roach: Take The 'A' Train (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 15, 09

Of the four studio albums by the Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet (including “Sonny Rollins Plus 4”), “Study In Brown...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRAIN TRACKS

For big bands in the thirties, trains were the logical upgrade from the drudgery of the band bus. Airplanes wer...

Sonny Rollins: Pent-Up House (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 16, 09

Sonny Rollins' "Pent Up House" fuses both the calm simplicity of the blues and the frantic feeling of bebop. Rollins...

Clifford Brown-Max Roach: Blues Walk (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

When the Max Roach-Clifford Brown Quintet formed in the spring of 1954, Sonny Stitt was its first saxophone player. ...

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Clifford Brown & Max Roach: What is This Thing Called Love (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

Clifford Brown had it all—all the range a trumpeter could wish for, a powerful and rich tone and infallible technique...

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Clifford Brown & Max Roach: Delilah (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

Brown & Roach hitch the Biblical temptress’ slithery theme from Victor Young’s score for C.B. (Cast of Thousands!) De...

Clifford Brown & Max Roach: Cherokee (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 27, 07

The clarity of ideas and ease of execution of Max Roach’s playing warrant his reputation as one of jazz’s most influe...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT MOMENTS IN MODERN JAZZ DRUMMING

Transitions and developments at the drumset have been an essential driving force throughout the history of jazz. Fro...

Clifford Brown & Max Roach: Land's End (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

The Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet was one the premier hard-bop ensembles, with both trumpeter Brown and drummer Ro...

Clifford Brown: Stardust (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

The album Clifford Brown With Strings has an interesting ‘behind the scenes’ tale, if we look to his widow LaRue Brow...

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Thad Jones & Mel Lewis: Tiptoe (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

Thad Jones was arguably the most consistently interesting big band arranger of the 1960s and 1970s, and “Tiptoe” is o...

Powell, Bud (Earl Rudolph) posted in Encyclopedia May 22, 08

Pianist Bud Powell's lyrical style seemed to effortlessly blend arpeggios with chromatic notes, which he topped off w...

Brown, Clifford posted in Encyclopedia April 20, 08

There is no controversy about Clifford Brown. His clean trumpet technique and beautiful improvisational lines are uni...

Tyner, McCoy (Alfred) posted in Encyclopedia March 21, 08

McCoy Tyner’s melodic lines on the piano sound like they could easily come from the bell of a saxophone or a trumpet....

Harris, Barry (Doyle) posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 09

Pianist Barry Harris seamlessly blends bebop’s lyrical phrasing with an exceptional accompanying style, drawn from hi...

Clifford Brown: Easy Living (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

While there is much injustice in the world, the death of Clifford Brown reads like a truly bad dream. Twenty-five yea...

Clifford Brown: Yesterdays (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 28, 08

Those who don't like brass with strings (and that includes many jazz buffs) should be assuaged: Clifford Brown with S...

Clifford Brown: Willow Weep for Me (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 29, 08

Clifford Brown doesn't even have to take a chorus to be one of the greatest jazz trumpet players of all times. Here, ...

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