Brownie Lives! Live at Basin Street and In Concert (1955)

About this title: Although Clifford Brown did a phenomenal amount of commercial recordings during his all too brief lifetime (he died prior to his 26th birthday in a car crash that also took the life of his quintet's pianist Richie Powell, Bud's younger brother), relatively few of the recordings he made were on stage. Fortunately, this CD includes performances from two 1956 broadcasts from the old Basin Street club in New York City, and two tracks from a Carnegie Hall concert the previous year. Although the MC talks over some of the music and the fidelity is typical for Airchecks preserved from the era ... read more

Tracks:

1. Valse Hot [Rollins]
2. I Feel a Song Comin' On [Fields/McHugh/Oppen]
3. What's New? [Burke/Haggart]
4. Daahoud [Brown]
5. Sweet Clifford [Brown]
6. I Get a Kick Out of You [Porter]
7. The Blues Walk [Brown]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.