Clifford Brown by Nick Catalano

Paperback
208 pgs.
Oxford University Press, Publ.
Illustrated

Based on extensive interviews with Brown's family, friends, and fellow jazz musicians, Catalano colorfully depicts Brown's life, showing how he developed a dazzling technique that few jazz players have equaled, of his meteoric rise in Philadelphia, his tour of Europe with Lionel Hampton, and his formation of the Brown-Roach Quintet. The book also features an informed analysis of Brown's major recorded solos, highlighting his originality and revealing why he remains such a great influence today.