This group with later replacements (Harold Land and Sonny Rollins) was to become one of the greatest small groups of the era and they remained on the West Coast for the next several months recording brilliantly structured classics like Joy Spring, Parisian Thoroughfare, Jordu and Daahoud. The reason is not hard to find since the jam session nature of the performances, where the first four titles average approximately 18 minutes each, was quite different to the music they wanted to create.įour months earlier they had debuted their new quintet with Teddy Edwards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. "Clifford Browns biography by Nick Catalano points out that both Clifford and Max Roach were very uncomfortable on this date. But in a wealth of fine playing, what lifts them into another dimension is the inspired trumpet of Clifford Brown, a great jazzman at the height of his considerable powers. An appropriately incendiary rhythm section in pianist Kenny Drew, bassist Curtis Counce and the magisterial Max Roach, stokes the fires of invention behind them with sensitivity, imagination and drive.įrom the opening tune, Coronadoa remarkably spirited and swinging bop blues numberthroughout a mid-tempo version of You Go to My Head, and on to the rhythmic excitement of Caravan and the gentle but buoyantly lyrical Autumn in New York, these performances offer everyone splendid opportunities to have their say, and to say it well. A stimulating contrast in colour is provided by the dark-toned, sinuously swinging tenor of Walter Benton. These legendary recordings took place in August 10, 1954, during four sessions at the old Capitol Studios (5515 Melrose Ave.) in Hollywood, and featured an all-star group headed by trumpeter Clifford Brown, with two outstanding and Bird-influenced alto saxophonists: Joe Maini, and Herb Geller, both compelling players, each with an extraordinary ability to swing.
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