Clifford Brown and Max Roach - Clifford Brown & Max Roach (Bonus Track Version) (1954/2016)

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Title: Clifford Brown & Max Roach (Bonus Track Version)
Year Of Release: 1954/2016
Label: Starlight Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:19:02
Total Size: 196 mb | 346 mb
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Tracklist:

01. Delilah
02. Parisian Thoroughfare
03. The Blues Walk
04. Daahoud
05. Joy Spring
06. Jordu
07. What Am I Here For
08. The Blues Walk (Alternate Take) [Bonus Track]
09. Daahoud (Alternate Take) [Bonus Track]
10. Joy Spring (Alternate Take) [Bonus Track]
11. Sweet Clifford (Bonus Track)
12. Cherokee (Bonus Track)

According to the original 1955 liner notes to Clifford Brown & Max Roach, the announcement that Clifford Brown and Max Roach had begun recording and playing together sent shock waves throughout the jazz community and predictions ran rampant about how the two might shape bop to come. The last duo to really shape the music had begun over ten years earlier, with the relationship between Bird and Diz. This recording was early fruit from a tree that would only live as long as Clifford Brown was around to water it (1956, the year of his tragic auto accident). The result is by far some of the warmest and most sincere bebop performed and committed to tape. Brown's tone is undeniably and characteristically warm, and he keeps the heat on alongside Roach's lilting vamps and pummeling solos. What really keeps this record on the orange side of things (other than the decidedly orange cover) is the solo work of saxophonist Harold Land, who plays part Bird and part Benny Goodman. His tone is as delightful as it gets on the sultry "Deliah" and as bop-expressive as it gets on "The Blues Walk" and "Parisian Thoroughfare," where he and Brownie go head to head blowing expressive runs of sheer New York-style jazz. This collection of songs runs a nice gamut between boplicity and pleasant balladry. It represents bop at its best and is recommended for collectors and casual fans alike.