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Trumpeter Clifford Brown started his recording career with Philadelphia based R&B band Chris Powell’s Blue Flames –see Classics 5065 – but by the time of these recording he was firmly established as a leading bebop trumpeter. He died, aged just 25, in a car crash on 52th June 1956, but his reputation and influence reaches down through the years right up to current New Orleans maestro Wynton Marsalis. ‘Brownie’ himself was influenced by Fats Navarro and demonstrates a very precise and accurate style, hitting the high notes cleanly and distinctly, no matter what the tempo. These sides feature some of the top jazz musicians of the time: people like Art Farmer, Art Blakey, Sarah Vaughn, Sony Rollins and particularly Max Roach. R&B enthusiast might also care to note the (admittedly low-key) presence of well-know West Coast tenor sax man Teddy Awards on the live recording on ‘Tenderly’ from a ‘Gene Norman Presents’ release, arranger Ernie Wilkins on Sarah Vaughn’s 1954 ‘September Song’ [...]