Jazz Immortal [Original recording remastered]

Clifford Brown | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 31, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1954
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Blue Note Records
• ASIN: B00005MIZ7
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #165,313 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #98 in Music > Indie Music > Jazz > Bebop

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clifford Brown: The best of the best:, July 6, 2002

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christopher p. maghee (Chambersburg, Pa. United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jazz Immortal (Audio CD)

Nobody since "Fats Navarro" played like that. Clifford Brown was the best and still is in the hard bop culture. We have had a lot of good jazz trumpet players since Brown left the scene in 1956; but nobody, and I mean nobody has been able to bring about the forcefullness, but sweet, and lyrical sounds that was the signature of Clifford Brown. As a young man growing up in Philadelphia, and being surrounded by up and comming musicians, and attempting to play the trumpet myself, I was inspired by Brown, and so was Lee Morgan, another great whose life was cut short in 1972. My collection of Brown probably includes all of his recordings. You could hear the promise in Brown from the earliest of his recordings. He was great with any group that he played with, regardless of the duration; however, he had reached his peak during his tenure with Max Roach. The Max Roach/Clifford Brown Quartette was in a class all of it's own; nobody could touch them. Relative to the review of this album, it's Brown at his best, and if the listener is not familiar with the music of Brown, they are in for a more than pleasant shock.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IMMORTAL jazz, April 21, 2009

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Nikica Gilic - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jazz Immortal (Audio CD)

If you wonder why some people rave about Clifford Brown being equal to (or even better than) Dizzy or Miles, check out, among others, this magnificent album... First of all - It's always exciting to hear the first recording of classic tunes - Brown's "Daahoud" and, one of my all-time-favorite-jazz-tunes ever, "Joy Spring"... Yes, tragically short-lived Clifford Brown was a very talented composer as well!
Brown shines sparkles throughout, playing worm, sonorous, boppish and subtle modern trumpet, aided by more cool-sounding musicians in beautiful arrangements, with the elegant Zoot Sims on tenor-sax, one of those underrated mainstream giants it's always pleasure to hear... Jack Montrose's arrangements are great and all the players sound compact as if they have rehearsed for months before taping this, and yet the music is relaxed as if it was a jam session.

Other tunes are of various quality in themselves ("Gone with the wind" is, no doubt, better material than "Blueberry Hill"), but each track is equally rewarding, in each I found my thrill... I firmly believe this is an album equally suitable for jazz beginners and for jazz-buffs who somehow missed on Clifford Brown. Warm, lovely, essential.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Joy Spring, February 9, 2008

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Richard Wirtz "Dick" (Knoxville, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jazz Immortal (Audio CD)

If Clifford Brown had lived to make more recordings, he would be better known today, and this would be at the center of more collections. The solos are great, and the ensemble work is inspired -- the product of arrangements by West Coast jazz arranger Jack Montrose, whose charts set the standard for West Coast jazz. A vintage recording without a "historical" feel to it, completely enjoyable today.