Clifford Brown, aka Brownie, was an American jazz trumpeter. He died at the age of 25 in a car accident, leaving behind only four years' worth of recordings. Nonetheless, he had a considerable influence on later jazz trumpet players, including Donald Byrd, Lee Morgan, Booker Little, and Freddie Hubbard, among others. He was also a composer of note: two of his compositions, Joy Spring and Daahoud, have become jazz standards.
He won the Down Beat critics' poll for the New Star of the Year in 1954;...
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