{"id":5892,"date":"2014-07-19T23:46:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T06:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=5892"},"modified":"2014-07-19T23:56:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T06:56:33","slug":"weekend-extra-brownie-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2014\/07\/weekend-extra-brownie-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra: Brownie Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;pjcYxULgu13sfw9o0G9NWvGtu2TcW1mW&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CliffordBrown020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CliffordBrown020.jpg\" alt=\"CliffordBrown020\" width=\"199\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CliffordBrown020.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CliffordBrown020-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CliffordBrown020-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>Until recently, admirers of the great trumpeter Clifford Brown heard him speak only a few words on the album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beginning-The-End-Clifford-Brown\/dp\/B000002ATP\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\"><em>The Beginning and the End<\/em><\/a>. Recently, however, a <em>YouTube<\/em> contributor who identifies herself as Nespasisi posted a segment of Brown being interviewed by Willis Conover of The Voice of America. Nespasisi explains that she found the fragment \u00e2\u20ac\u0153on one of my dusty old cassette tapes.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The discussion was shortly before Brown died in an automobile accident on June 27, 1956, four months short of his 26th birthday.   <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U2Mnglpysuo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N8u6UvBlVYc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Clifford Brown with Lou Donaldson, alto saxophone; Elmo Hope, piano; Percy Heath, bass; and Philly Joe Jones, drums, playing &#8220;Brownie Speaks,&#8221; included on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00005MIZ6\/?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;s=music&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\">this album<\/a>. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in the mood for more about Clifford, listen to Nat Hentoff talk about him with Clifford Brown, Jr., in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZcB16zkRaXc\"target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Institute of the Arts symposium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For even more, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/06\/from-the-archives-clifford-brown.html\"target=\"_blank\">this <em>Rifftides<\/em> archive piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;pjcYxULgu13sfw9o0G9NWvGtu2TcW1mW&#8221;] Until recently, admirers of the great trumpeter Clifford Brown heard him speak only a few words on the album The Beginning and the End. Recently, however, a YouTube contributor who identifies herself as Nespasisi posted a segment of Brown being interviewed by Willis Conover of The Voice of America. Nespasisi explains that she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-5892","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\/5892","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=5892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}