Best Coast Jazz
1956 studio album by Clifford Brown
Best Coast Jazz | ||||
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Studio album by Clifford Brown | ||||
Released | 1956 | |||
Recorded | August 11, 1954 | |||
Studio | Capitol, 5515 Melrose, Hollywood | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 36:58 | |||
Label | EmArcy MG 36039 | |||
Clifford Brown chronology | ||||
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Best Coast Jazz is an album by American jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown featuring tracks recorded in 1954 and released on the EmArcy label.[1] Further tracks from the same sessions were released as Clifford Brown All Stars in 1956 following Brown's untimely death.
Reception
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AllMusic awarded the album 4½ stars and Scott Yanow, in his review, states "fine solos all around but Brownie's closing statement cuts everyone".[2]
Track listing
- "Coronado" (Johnny Coles) – 19:46
- "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 17:12
Personnel
- Clifford Brown – trumpet
- Herb Geller, Joe Maini – alto saxophone
- Walter Benton – tenor saxophone
- Kenny Drew – piano
- Curtis Counce – bass
- Max Roach – drums
References
- ^ EmArcy Records discography accessed October 5, 2012
- ^ a b Yanow, S. AllMusic Review accessed October 5, 2012
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Years given are for the recording(s), years in square brackets refer to the listed 12" LP/CD release.
leader
- Memorial Album (Blue Note, 1953 [1956])
- Memorial (Prestige, 1953 [1956])
- Arranged by Montrose (Jack Montrose, 1954)/Jazz Immortal ([1956])
- Jam Session (with Clark Terry & Maynard Ferguson, 1954)
Max Roach
- Best Coast Jazz (1954)
- Clifford Brown All Stars (1954)
- Clifford Brown & Max Roach (1954)
- Brown and Roach Incorporated (1954)
- Daahoud (1954)
- Clifford Brown with Strings (1955)
- Study in Brown (1955)
- Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (1956)
- Sonny Rollins Plus 4 (CB/MRQ, 1956)
with others
- A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 (Art Blakey, 1954)
- A Night at Birdland Vol. 2 (Art Blakey, 1954)
- A Night at Birdland Vol. 3 (Art Blakey, 1954)
- Dinah Jams (Dinah Washington, 1954)
- Helen Merrill (1954)
- Sarah Vaughan (1954)
- Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years (with Max Roach, [1995])