Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues: A Tribute To The Great Clifford Brown (1930-1956)

Thursday, January 14, 2010

A Tribute To The Great Clifford Brown (1930-1956)

This was one of the most tragic losses for the jazz world. Brownie was actually a clean-living dude, not like some of the wounded geniuses who passed before him. He died in a car wreck, and he wasn't even driving.

Listen up, hepcats: from Blue Note, Planet 1953. The number's called Hymn of the Orient ...

Go to YouTube for details. But I'll throw in that on drums is the most legendary Art Blakey (1919-1990).

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Mister Roberts -- see January 2009 post.
The Big Parade, The Crowd, Our Daily Bread, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Seven Days in May, Dr. Strangelove, The Grapes of Wrath, Silkwood, Salt of the Earth, Born on the Fourth of July, A Face in the Crowd, The Manchurian Candidate, Easy Rider, Chinatown, Reds, The Naked and the Dead.
Fear on Trial.
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