Clifford Brown - Clifford Brown Big Band in Paris (1989) 320 kbps

Tracklist

01. Brown Skins (take 1) (Gryce) - 6:07
02. Brown Skins (take 2) (Gryce) - 6:10
03. Keeping Up with Jonesy (take 1) (Jones) - 7:07
04. Keeping Up with Jonesy (take 2) (Jones) - 6:29
05. Bum's Rush (Jones) - 3:13
06. Chez Moi (Goffin-King-Revil-Simille) - 7:53
07. All Weird (take 1) (Brown) - 5:20
08. All Weird (take 2) (Brown) - 1:58
09. No Start, No End (Unknown) - 3:57

Although Lionel Hampton forbid his sidemen from recording during their trip to France in 1953, many of the musicians fortunately ignored his orders; the band broke up soon anyway. Trumpeter Clifford Brown is heard on this LP mostly with a big band actually put together by Gigi Gryce. A few of these tracks are excerpts but the two takes of "Brownskins" and "Keeping up with Jonesy" are fairly long as is a nearly eight-minute "Chez Moi." The music is not essential but Brownie did not live long enough to record anything less than excellent.~Scott Yanow