October 30
 Clifford Brown |
On this date Clifford Brown, an African-American jazz trumpeter, was born in 1930.
Born in Wilmington, DE, Brown attended Delaware State College and Maryland State College. He played in Philadelphia before joining, first, Tadd Dameron’s band in Atlantic City, NJ, then Lionel Hampton’s big band for a European tour, both in 1953. He then played with leading West Coast musicians and the Art Blakey quintet. In 1954, he and drummer Max Roach formed the Brown-Roach quintet, which quickly became one of the outstanding postwar jazz units. http://www.aaregistry.com/detail.php?id=1261 Check out his story!
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