In the summertime of 1954 and the winter of 1955, the Clifford Brown and Max Roach Quintet got here collectively at Capitol Studios in Hollywood to document a landmark jazz LP. Greater than 70 years later, Clifford Brown & Max Roach is coming again to vinyl by way of Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Collection. The document is up for pre-order now and set for launch in November.
In 2000, The New York Occasions hailed the Clifford Brown and Max Roach Quintet as “perhaps the definitive bop group until Mr. Brown’s fatal automobile accident in 1956.” In the meantime, The Blackwell Information to Recorded Jazz notes that the quintet “left behind a body of music that encapsulates all the best virtues of hard bop,” greatest exemplified on these seven tracks.
Clifford Brown & Max Roach exhibits off the band on the peak of its powers. Brown’s trumpet and Roach’s drums every get loads of highlight moments, and collectively they exhibit a telepathic reference to bandmates Harold Land (tenor saxophone), Richie Powell (piano), and George Morrow (bass). Per All Music Information, the album “represents bop at its best and is recommended for collectors and casual fans alike.”
Initially launched as a five-track album on 10-inch vinyl in December 1954, Clifford Brown & Max Roach was expanded to the 12-inch format the next 12 months with the addition of “The Blues Walk” and “What Am I Here For.” The album is highlighted by the Brown-penned customary “Joy Spring,” well known as one in all his crowning achievements.
The Acoustic Sounds Collection has been giving a few of Verve’s biggest releases the recent highlight they deserve. This 12 months the sequence, which options transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging, has relaunched titles from Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Diana Krall, and plenty of extra.
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