[78-L] trivia question and Cary question

[buster]

His son Clifford Brown Jr. deejays on kcsm.org streaming jazz station, and sometimes tells some pretty good family stories. 

On Oct 11, 2010, at 1:14 PM, Bill McClung <bmcclung78 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes. It was.  There's a good biography--"Clifford Brown:The Life and Art of
> the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter" by  Nick Catalano published by Oxford
> University Press in 2000.
> 
> When Brown was a student at Maryland State College he started to get noticed
> by older musicians.  He sat in with Charlie Parker and was known to Dizzy
> Gillespie, Sarah Vaughn and others.  In 1950, while on tour with his college
> band, he was seriously injured in a car wreck.  After he recovered enough to
> play again he got a gig with Chris Powell and toured with him into 1953.
> Powell's band was made up of jazz musicians but their shows and their
> records were mostly rhythm & blues done to please their audiences.
> 
> Brown's first jazz recordings were with Lou Donaldson for Blue Note on June
> 9, 1953.  The next were two days later for Tad Dameron on Prestige.
> 
> He died on June 26, 1956 in a car wreck on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Dan Van Landingham <
> danvanlandingham at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Was that the same Clifford Brown who was killed in a 1956 car crash with
>> Bud
>> Powell's brother Richie?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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>> Sent: Sun, October 10, 2010 8:16:51 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] trivia question and Cary question
>> 
>> Ooh! Ooh! Clifford Brown! (Yeah, I looked it up.)
>> 
>> dl
>> 
>> On 10/10/2010 8:52 PM, Bill McClung wrote:
>>> 
>>> And the other was "Ida Red" by Chris Powell and His Five Blue Flames on
>> Okeh
>>> 6875.
>>> 
>>> Trivia question--the trumpet solo on "Ida Red" was from this performer's
>>> first commercial recording session.  Who was this trumpet player?
>>> 
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