The band's early line-ups included Sonny Stitt, Teddy Edwards, Carl Perkins and George Bledsoe, but by the time the first of these sessions was recorded in August 1954, they had been replaced by the more long-term line-up of George Morrow, Harold Land and Richie Powell, the brother of jazz luminary Bud Powell. Brown and Roach together selected additional musicians to comprise the quintet from among the jazz musicians currently active in Hollywood. The album is one of several that resulted from the partnership between Roach and Brown after Roach invited Brown in New York City to join him in creating a band.
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Since then, it has been reissued multiple times, including in 2000 as part of the Verve Master Edition series with a replica of the original LP sleeve, new liner notes, and containing three alternative takes and one previously unissued track. In 1955, EmArcy released a 12" vinyl (MG-36036), adding "The Blues Walk" and "What Am I Here For", from a February 1955 session at Capitol Studios in New York City. įirst released as a 10" vinyl in December 1954 (MG 26043), it included only five tracks: "Delilah", "Parisian Thoroughfare", "Daahoud", "Joy Spring" and "Jordu", all recorded at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, in August 1954. It is included in Jazz: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings, where it is described by New York Times jazz critic Ben Ratliff as "one of the strongest studio albums up to that time". The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. The album was critically well received and includes several notable tracks, including two that have since become jazz standards. Brown's fatal automobile accident in 1956". Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet chronologyĬlifford Brown & Max Roach is a 1954 album by influential jazz musicians Clifford Brown and Max Roach as part of the Clifford Brown and Max Roach Quintet, described by The New York Times as "perhaps the definitive bop group until Mr.
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