1956
Clifford Brown, American trumpet player and composer (born 1930)
Clifford Brown, American trumpet player and composer (born 1930)
Clifford Brown, American trumpet player and composer (born 1930)
Clifford Brown
American jazz trumpeter, pianist, and composer (1930–1956)
- Died
- 1956
Clifford Benjamin Brown was an American jazz trumpeter, pianist, and composer. He died at the age of 25 in a car crash, leaving behind four years' worth of recordings. His compositions "Sandu", "Joy Spring", and "Daahoud" have become jazz standards. Brown won the DownBeat magazine Critics' Poll for New Star of the Year in 1954; he was inducted into the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame in 1972.