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Advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings.

Jazz Library: Clifford Brown

30/10/2010

Clifford Brown

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz Library, Clifford Brown

Alyn Shipton and Tom Perchard pick the best recordings by trumpeter Clifford Brown.

Author Tom Perchard joins Alyn Shipton to pick the recorded highlights of trumpeter Clifford Brown, who died in 1956. Including tracks from the Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet.

Clifford Brown died in a car crash at 25, robbing the jazz world of one of its most talented and original trumpeters. To mark the 80th anniversary of Brown's birth, author Tom Perchard joins Alyn Shipton to pick the highlights of his recordings. The programme centres on the Clifford Brown / Max Roach Quintet, but also includes a wide variety of other material including discs with Sarah Vaughan and with a string orchestra.

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