Album: Clifford Brown & Max Roach


Clifford Brown & Max Roach is a 1954 album by Clifford Brown and Max Roach as part of the Clifford Brown and Max Roach Quintet.

The album was critically well received. The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Jazz ranks it as among the best of the short-lived quintet, which in its 2½ years of existence "left behind a body of music that encapsulates all the best virtues of hard bop".

The Track List is Delilah, Parisian Thoroughfare, The Blues Walk, Joy Spring, Jordu, What Am I Here For?, hese Foolish Things, The Blues Walk, Daahoud, and Joy Spring.

Musicians on the album are Clifford Brown (trumpet), Harold Land (tenor saxophone), Richie Powell (piano), George Morrow (bass), and Max Roach (drums).

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Clifford Brown and Max Roach, 1954