Clifford Brown

[mrjazzman]

At The Cotton Club 1956 by Lonhill Jazz. To all you Brownie experts, is this new, never released before music??????????

[jazzbo]

Been "released" among collectors of course, but this is the first time I've seen it on cd.

Please. . .it's "Lonehill". . .not "Lonhill". . . Lon doesn't want any association.

[Jim R]

According to a poster at AAJ, it was released as part of Philology's "Brownie Eyes" series (I'm too lazy to try to verify that right now, but it seems plausible).

As usual, Lonehill claims to be breaking new ground: "The Cleveland Cotton Club performances contained on this package -issued here for the first time ever..."

[Claude Schlouch]

If you are a real Clifford's fanatic, please ask the owner of the Philology label. He will send you the details of the 36 CDs available on his site. Amazing!

Good luck!

[Quasimado]

I see there is a new 2 CD Clifford release *PLAYS TRUMPET & PIANO THE COMPLETE SOLO REHEARSALS* on the *RARE LIVE RECORDINGS* label.

Seems to have a lot of interesting stuff including private solo piano recordings, tapes of him practicing the trumpet unaccompanied at home, an unissued live performance of 'I Come From Jamaica' and a trumpet alto sax duet version of 'Ornithology' with his teacher Robert Lowery in 1949 or 1950, among other things.

Any Clifford completists out there who have heard this?

Q

[bichos]

I see there is a new 2 CD Clifford release *PLAYS TRUMPET & PIANO THE COMPLETE SOLO REHEARSALS* on the *RARE LIVE RECORDINGS* label.

Seems to have a lot of interesting stuff including private solo piano recordings, tapes of him practicing the trumpet unaccompanied at home, an unissued live performance of 'I Come From Jamaica' and a trumpet alto sax duet version of 'Ornithology' with his teacher Robert Lowery in 1949 or 1950, among other things.

Any Clifford completists out there who have heard this?

Q

i have this recordings for years and it´s only for clifford completists. sound is (as you can imagine) not too good. but hey, it´s brownie!! hope someday the charlie parker/clifford brown recordings from january 1954 come to light. (clifford´s son are in the possesion of them). i for myself are enjoying such privat and practicing recordings. they round up the whole picture of an artist beside the well known official studio recordings.

keep boppin´

marcel

[jazzbo]

I have a lot of this on dubs from collector's tapes as well. As Marcel says, for completists only. I am happy with what I have of this, but the sound is not great. I'm not getting the cd.

[AllenLowe]

According to Amazon the tapes were in the car the night it crashed -

oy veh

[GA Russell]

Doug Ramsey currently has embedded in his Rifftides blog the YouTube video of Clifford Brown on Soupy Sales' show.