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Clifford Brown, aka “Brownie”, (October 30, 1930 – June 26, 1956) was an influential and highly-rated American jazz trumpeter. Despite an abbreviated recording career of only 4 years duration (due to his early death), he had a considerable influence on later jazz trumpet players, including Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis, Nicholas Payton, Arturo Sandoval, and especially Valery Ponomarev.

He won the Down Beat critics’ poll for the ‘New Star of the Year’ in 1954; he was inducted into the Down Beat ‘Jazz Hall of Fame’ in 1972 in the critics’ poll. Sandoval described him as “one of what we call the mandatory trumpet players” who was “one of the greatest trumpet players of all time”.

Wilmington, Delaware, (where Brownie was born and is buried), hosts an annual jazz fest in his honor. Sponsored by the cities arts commission known as Citifest, the Clifford Brown Jazz Festival is a FREE week long event held mostly in outdoor venues at various locations in Wilmington. The festival usually occurs the 3rd week in June of each year.

Noteable websites are:
The Clifford Brown Jazz Festival: http://www.cliffordbrownjazzfest.com
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Brown and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Brown_Jazz_Festival
Brownie, the unofficial memorial website: http://cliffordbrown.net
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  • paulgray

    How can we lowercase Clifford's name?

    20 Feb 1:18pm Reply

  • Domin_vlc

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    27 Sep 2012 Reply

  • newjeru87

    Jazz could have gone a totally different direction if not for one shitty, rainy night.

    10 Aug 2012 Reply

  • MrJazzyMan

    With Strings is great. Especially good to listen to at night.

    26 Jun 2012 Reply

  • barryvs

    Yeah, the Blue Note/Pacific Jazz joint is pretty awesome.

    31 Mar 2012 Reply

  • gangstayoda

    this dude is amazing. i just found his complete blue note/pacific jazz recordings!!!

    14 Mar 2012 Reply

  • WilliamStonier

    The biggest reason I look up too this man as a jazz musician is, well his skill of course, but he didn't do drugs and he didn't drink and he dispelled the myth that you needed to do drugs to be able to play soulfully. RIP Clifford.

    31 Dec 2011 Reply

  • bernarducs

    He >>> Miles.

    2 Dec 2011 Reply

  • thenearestdoor

    oh man, if only he had lived another 40+ years ....sigh

    21 Sep 2011 Reply

  • Druid66

    A shooting star of Jazz. Think: he did what he did in just four years!

    8 Sep 2011 Reply

  • barryvs

    Awesome trumpet player.

    26 Jul 2011 Reply

  • the_Crowder

    ... Huh. I honestly thought I was the only one that liked his rendition of Easy Livin' above all else. I was expecting to see Cherokee topping the charts.

    26 Mar 2011 Reply

  • gangstayoda

    holy shit! dude was only 26! just imagine what he could have done. why'd he have to let his wife drive?!

    6 Jan 2011 Reply

  • Godfrey11

    No better player out there.

    28 Dec 2010 Reply

  • SmertoSlava

    Fantastic!!!

    9 Nov 2010 Reply

  • Erikmar

    ♫ Love Jazz ♫

    30 Jul 2010 Reply

  • Frenchytj

    Clifford died 14days before I was born.At the age of 16,I bought his album"The Beginning And The End".My favorite tunes were then"Night in Tunisia"and "Walkin'".Later I preferred his version of"It Might As Well Be Spring"which I loved to play onstage.Even I've hurd hundreds of jazzmen ,he still is my fav! Frenchytj.

    19 Jun 2010 Reply

  • JerryMeandering

    Clifford Brown The Free Clifford Brown Jazz Festival, (Official site: [officialsite]http://www.cliffordbrownjazzfest.com[/officialsite]) all week, June 14–20, 2010 in Wilmington, Delaware. If you will be anywhere near the U.S. Mid-Atlantic east coast, (New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C.) it's only 2 hours drive. Wilmington, Delaware, (where Brownie was born and is buried), hosts an annual jazz fest in his honor. Citifest, the cities arts commission, sponsors the Clifford Brown Jazz Festival, a FREE week long event held mostly in outdoor venues at various locations in Wilmington.

    11 Jun 2010 Reply

  • pone2none

    grand!!!

    9 Jun 2010 Reply

  • TheAbbott

    With Strings is one of my favorite jazz albums.

    3 Jan 2010 Reply
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