Clifford Brown, in a very short life, earned the profound respect and admiration of generations of musicians and followers. In 1994 LaRue Brown Watson, Clifford’s widow, established the Clifford Brown Jazz Foundation, directed by Clifford Brown III, grandson of Clifford Brown and respected Bay Area trumpeter and music producer. He showed me that it was possible to live a good, clean life and still be a good jazz musician. Brown was never interested in drugs or alcohol Sonny Rollins, who joined Brown and Roach’s quintet following Harold Land’s move, said “Clifford was a profound influence on my personal life. With his playing limited to piano for months, Brown never fully recovered and routinely dislocated his shoulder for the rest of his life. Dizzy Gillespie visited Brown in the hospital and encouraged him to pursue his musical career. In June 1950 he was seriously injured in a car accident, leading to a year-long hospitalization. Brown started Delaware State University as a math major before transferring to Maryland State College, where he played in the Maryland State Band. When he was thirteen his father gave him a trumpet of his own and provided private lessons from Robert Boysie Lowery. Her friend Max Roach introduced her to Clifford Brown, who took her aside and said, “Honey, the whole world is not built around tonic/dominant.” She subsequently became a jazz devotee.Ĭlifford Brown (-) started playing trumpet at age ten, having become fascinated with his father’s trumpet.
She was a classical music student, whose thesis “Classics versus Jazz” was written to demonstrate the superiority of classical music over jazz. “Joy Spring” was written in 1954 by Clifford Brown in honor of his wife, Larue Anderson, whom he called his “joy spring”. Stories of Standards is sponsored by ListenUp – If you love music, you’ll love ListenUp.
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