Clifford Brown

· SIX-PANEL DIGIPACK

· THE COMPLETE LP + 7 BONUS TRACKS

Presented here in its entirety is the classic album Clifford Brown With Strings (EmArcy MG 36005), one of the most lyrical albums in the trumpeter’s career and his only excursion in the jazz horn-plusstring orchestra format, which had already been explored by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, among others. Seven wonderful ballads featuring Brownie, taken from different 1953 sessions in New York and in Paris, have been added as a bonus.

PERSONNEL:

• CLIFFORD BROWN, trumpet
• RICHIE POWELL, piano
• BARRY GALBRAITH, guitar
• GEORGE MORROW, bass
• MAX ROACH, drums
• and String Orchestra conducted by NEAL HEFTI.

New York, January 18-20, 1955.

(*) BONUS TRACKS [13-19]:

Clifford Brown, trumpet. Studio recordings with various formations. New York, Los Angeles and Paris, 1953-54.

TRACKS:

• 01 Portrait of Jenny
• 02 What’s New?
• 03 Yesterdays
• 04 Where or When
• 05 Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man
• 06 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
• 07 Laura
• 08 Memories of You
• 09 Embraceable You
• 10 Blue Moon
• 11 Willow Weep for Me
• 12 Stardust
• 13 Brownie Eyes (*)
• 14 Easy Living (*)
• 15 You Go to My Head (*)
• 16 Strictly Romantic (*)
• 17 I Cover the Waterfront (*)
• 18 It Might as Well Be Spring (*)
• 19 A Ghost of a Chance (*)

• TOTAL TIME: 73:59 Min.