[78-L] trivia question and Cary question

[Dan Van Landingham]

As I recall,he was on his way to a gig in Chicago.Powell's wife was behind the 
wheel.Baritone sax player
Bob Gordon was killed the same way in the same year.




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From: Bill McClung <bmcclung78 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Mon, October 11, 2010 1:14:43 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] trivia question and Cary question

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?
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> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> Ooh! Ooh! Clifford Brown! (Yeah, I looked it up.)
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> dl
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> On 10/10/2010 8:52 PM, Bill McClung wrote:
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> > And the other was "Ida Red" by Chris Powell and His Five Blue Flames on
> Okeh
> > 6875.
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> > 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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