Clifford Brown & Max Roach: Vme Series [Extra tracks, Original recording remastered]

Clifford Brown, Harold Land, Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Max Roach | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 29, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 1954
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B00004NHC0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,036 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly a masterpiece from a most underrated artist in jazz, June 5, 2003

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"sranney22" (Austin TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Clifford Brown & Max Roach: Vme Series (Audio CD)

With Miles Davis succeeding so well in the 1950's and "out performing" any other trumpeter in that decade some forget about some of the other fine brilliant trumpets that were in the shadows, I'm sorry to say, of Miles Davis. Some of these trumpeters included Kenny Dorham, Dizzy Gillespie, and of course Clifford Brown. A big influence to many brilliant trumpeters such as Lee Morgan, who actually modeled his sound after Clifford Brown, Clifford Brown had a new sound, a bold screamin' sound that was essential to the movement into the more "modern" jazz at that point. In this album he is joined by one of the finest hard core drummers of the time, Max Roach, Harold Land, another truly outspoken artist, on tenor, George Morrow on bass and Richie Powell on piano. Every single cut on this album are just true jewels. This is a must for any one unfamiliar with Clifford Brown.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars About as good as it gets, April 22, 2000

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This review is from: Clifford Brown & Max Roach: Vme Series (Audio CD)

The playing, song selection and, thanks to the fantastic 24 bit remastering job, the recording quality is about as good as it gets. When you consider what the engineers must have started with on this 1954 recording what they have accomplished isn't much less than a miracle. Absolute state-of-the-art sound! This album joins a small number of lesser known masterpeices in the jazz field like Serge Challoff's Blue Serge and Chico Freeman's Spitit Sensitive at the very top of the heap.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hard Bop moved into contemporary lyricism with this group, December 9, 1998

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This review is from: Clifford Brown & Max Roach (Audio CD)

Clifford Brown - a name not well known today, but the master of the trumpet in 1955 and 1956 - until his very premature demise at the age of 26 in an auto crash.

This fellow played the trumpet like he copyrighted the term "stretch-out". He blows away the constraints of bop. How he manages to rise to the heights of lyricism, especially with Max Roach keeping time with his lock-step snares and tom-toms, is beyond me. Listen to how he makes musical space in his playing! There is nothing remotely like him prior to 1954 - but Lee Morgan and Freddy Hubbard would never have played like they did without him.