Clifford Brown – Max Roach Quintet Live at the Continental Restaurant, Norfolk - 1956 (audio only)

Clifford Brown – Max Roach Quintet feat. Sonny Rollins & Gerry Mulligan Live at the Continental Restaurant Norfolk, Virginia, June 18, 1956. WNOR-AM radio broadcast. “The Last Concert(??)“; Clifford Brown in what very well may have been his last known broadcast before an untimely death from a car accident on his way to another gig. -Setlist(??): 01. Just One Of Those Things 02. You Got To My Head 03. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) 04. Someone To Watch Over Me 05. What’s New 06. These Foolish Things 07. I Get A Kick Out Of You 08. Good Bait -Lineup: Alto Saxophone – Paul Desmond Baritone Saxophone – Gerry Mulligan Bass – George Morrow Drums – Max Roach Piano – Richie Powell Tenor Saxophone – Sonny Rollins Trumpet – Clifford Brown “The Last Concert(??)“ Clifford Brown in what very well may have been his last known broadcast before an untimely death from a car accident on his way to another gig. Clifford Brown. Profile: American jazz trumpet player. Born: October 30, 1930, Wilmington, Delaware, USA Died: June 26, 1956, Bedford, Pennsylvania, USA in a car crash. He was encouraged by both Dizzy Gillespie and Fats Navarro, that latter of which was Brown’s main influence. He performed with R&B bandleader Chris Powell, Tadd Dameron, Lionel Hampton, and Art Blakey before forming his own group with Max Roach, the Clifford Brown and Max Roach Quintet. In June 1956, Brown and Richie Powell were being driven from Philadelphia to Chicago by Powell’s wife Nancy for the band’s next appearance. While driving on a rainy night on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, west of Bedford, she lost control of the car and it went off the road. All three were killed in the resulting crash. Brown is buried in Mt. Zion Cemetery, in Wilmington, Delaware. He won the Down Beat critics’ poll for the ‘New Star of the Year’ in 1954; he was inducted into the Down Beat ‘Jazz Hall of Fame’ in 1972 in the critics’ poll. (). Clifford Brown and Max Roach. Profile: 1954 to 1956 hard bop jazz unit mainly billed by the names of leaders Clifford Brown (Trumpet) and Max Roach (Drums) but in reality - and sometimes billed as such - a quintet including George Morrow (Bass), Richie Powell (Piano) and Harold Land (Tenor saxophone). Also billed as Clifford Brown And Max Roach Incorporated. Members: Clifford Brown, George Morrow, Harold Land, Max Roach, Richie Powell, Sonny Rollins (). (Audio: Thanks to Pastdaily / Gordon Skene (Sound Collection)).