Clifford Brown

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Clifford Brown was a highly influential American jazz trumpeter known for his virtuosic technique, warm tone, and key role in the hard bop movement of the 1950s.

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Clifford Brown canonical 22
Clifford Benjamin Brown 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf composer
human
jazz trumpeter
musician
activeYearsEnd 1956
activeYearsStart 1949
awardReceived DownBeat Critics Poll New Star (trumpet)
burialPlace Wilmington, Delaware
surface form: Wilmington, Delaware, United States
causeOfDeath car accident
collaboratedWith Art Blakey
Dinah Washington
Harold Land
Max Roach
Richie Powell
Sarah Vaughan
Sonny Rollins
Tadd Dameron
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1930-10-30
dateOfDeath 1956-06-26
education Delaware State University
surface form: Delaware State College

University of Maryland, Eastern Shore
surface form: Maryland State College
familyName Brown
fullName Clifford Brown self-linksurface differs
surface form: Clifford Benjamin Brown
genre bebop
hard bop
jazz
givenName Clifford
influenced Donald Byrd
Freddie Hubbard
Lee Morgan
Wynton Marsalis
influencedBy Dizzy Gillespie
Fats Navarro
Miles Davis
instrument trumpet
memberOf Max Roach Quintet
surface form: Clifford Brown and Max Roach Quintet
movement hard bop
notableAlbum Brown and Roach Incorporated
Clifford Brown & Max Roach
Clifford Brown with Strings
Study in Brown
notableWork Cherokee (recording)
Daahoud
Joy Spring
Parisian Thoroughfare
Sandu
placeOfBirth Wilmington, Delaware
surface form: Wilmington, Delaware, United States
placeOfDeath Bedford, Pennsylvania
surface form: Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States
recordedWithEnsemble Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
surface form: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
recordLabel Blue Note Records
EmArcy Records
Prestige Records
styleCharacteristic lyrical improvisation
virtuosic technique
warm tone

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Max Roach associatedAct Clifford Brown
Horace Silver associatedAct Clifford Brown
With a Song in My Heart recordedBy Clifford Brown
Dizzy Gillespie influenced Clifford Brown
Embraceable You hasNotablePerformer Clifford Brown
Sonny Rollins associatedAct Clifford Brown
Blue Note Records notableArtist Clifford Brown
Dinah Washington performedWith Clifford Brown
Maxwell Lemuel Roach collaboratedWith Clifford Brown
Clifford Brown fullName Clifford Brown self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Clifford Benjamin Brown
EmArcy Records notableArtist Clifford Brown
hard bop notableArtist Clifford Brown
Art Blakey associatedAct Clifford Brown
Wynton Marsalis (debut album) influencedBy Clifford Brown
subject surface form: Wynton Marsalis (album)
I'm Old Fashioned hasNotablePerformer Clifford Brown
subject surface form: "I'm Old Fashioned"
Helen Merrill recordedWith Clifford Brown
Tenderly hasNotableRecordingBy Clifford Brown
What Is This Thing Called Love? hasNotablePerformer Clifford Brown
subject surface form: "What Is This Thing Called Love?"