Clifford Brown And Max Roach (2025 Mono Remaster) Clifford Brown & Max Roach

• 1 Delilah 08:03
• 2 Parisian Thoroughfare 07:15
• 3 The Blues Walk 06:50
• 4 Daahoud 04:02
• 5 Joy Spring 06:48
• 6 Jordu (Edited Version) 04:00
• 7 What Am I Here For? 03:08
• Total Runtime 40:06

Info for Clifford Brown And Max Roach (2025 Mono Remaster)

In the summer of 1954 and the winter of 1955, the Clifford Brown and Max Roach Quintet came together at Capitol Studios in Hollywood to record a landmark jazz album. More than 70 years later, Clifford Brown & Max Roach are back in a 24bit remastered edition.

In 2000, The New York Times hailed the Clifford Brown and Max Roach Quintet as “perhaps the definitive bop group until Mr. Brown’s fatal automobile accident in 1956.” Meanwhile, The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Jazz notes that the quintet “left behind a body of music that encapsulates all the best virtues of hard bop,” best exemplified on these seven tracks.

Clifford Brown & Max Roach shows off the band at the peak of its powers. Brown’s trumpet and Roach’s drums each get plenty of spotlight moments, and together they exhibit a telepathic connection with bandmates Harold Land (tenor saxophone), Richie Powell (piano), and George Morrow (bass). Per All Music Guide, the album “represents bop at its best and is recommended for collectors and casual fans alike.”

Originally released as a five-track album on 10-inch vinyl in December 1954, Clifford Brown & Max Roach was expanded to the 12-inch format the following year with the addition of “The Blues Walk” and “What Am I Here For.” The album is highlighted by the Brown-penned standard “Joy Spring,” widely recognized as one of his crowning achievements.

"According to the original 1955 liner notes to Clifford Brown & Max Roach, the announcement that Clifford Brown and Max Roach had begun recording and playing together sent shock waves throughout the jazz community and predictions ran rampant about how the two might shape bop to come. The last duo to really shape the music had begun over ten years earlier, with the relationship between Bird and Diz. This recording was early fruit from a tree that would only live as long as Clifford Brown was around to water it (1956, the year of his tragic auto accident). The result is by far some of the warmest and most sincere bebop performed and committed to tape. Brown's tone is undeniably and characteristically warm, and he keeps the heat on alongside Roach's lilting vamps and pummeling solos. What really keeps this record on the orange side of things (other than the decidedly orange cover) is the solo work of saxophonist Harold Land, who plays part Bird and part Benny Goodman. His tone is as delightful as it gets on the sultry "Deliah" and as bop-expressive as it gets on "The Blues Walk" and "Parisian Thoroughfare," where he and Brownie go head to head blowing expressive runs of sheer New York-style jazz. This collection of songs runs a nice gamut between boplicity and pleasant balladry. It represents bop at its best and is recommended for collectors and casual fans alike." (Sam Samuelson, AMG)

Clifford Brown, trumpet
Harold Land, tenor saxophone
Richie Powell, piano
George Morrow, bass
Max Roach, drums

Recorded in Los Angeles, August 2, 3 & 6, 1954 & New York, February 24-25, 1955

Digitally remastered

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