{"id":11057,"date":"2019-04-19T22:36:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T05:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=11057"},"modified":"2019-04-22T10:59:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T17:59:24","slug":"weekend-extra-clifford-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2019\/04\/weekend-extra-clifford-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra: Clifford Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/clifford-brown-in-1953-e1555738281767.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11058\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/clifford-brown-in-1953-e1555738281767.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a>The recent post featuring the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet in the 1950s led a couple of <em>Rifftides<\/em> readers to suggest that we hear more of Brown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sparkling trumpet playing. He became a major jazz artist before his death at 26 in an automobile accident in 1956 and has been a major influence on every generation of trumpet players since. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s listen to his composition \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tiny Capers,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with Clifford leading an ensemble that also includes Zoot Sims, tenor saxophone; Bob Gordon, baritone sax; Stu Williamson, valve trombone; Russ Freeman, piano; Carson Smith, bass; and Shelly Manne, drums\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6an all-star group if there ever was one\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6at the height of the West Coast Jazz movement. &#8221;\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: large;\">&#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UwSOtNwTavw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Clifford Brown and company in July, 1954, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jazz-Immortal-CLIFFORD-BROWN\/dp\/B00005MIZ7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an album<\/a> that is likely to be part of the essential jazz repertoire for years, even decades, to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent post featuring the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet in the 1950s led a couple of Rifftides readers to suggest that we hear more of Brown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sparkling trumpet playing. He became a major jazz artist before his death at 26 in an automobile accident in 1956 and has been a major influence on every generation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}