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Clifford Brown opens the solo section with seven choruses of trumpet on this alternate take of his signature blues composition "The Blues Walk," one chorus more than he plays on the issued master. Harold Land plays backgrounds on chorus 4 and 5 of Clifford Brown's solo. The extended improvisation builds an expansive narrative over the 12-bar blues form in B-flat at a brisk 260 BPM, Brown's characteristic brilliance and deep blues feeling driving the performance forward chorus after chorus. Comparing this version with the issued take reveals the depth of Brown's improvisational vocabulary, as he charts an entirely different path through the familiar harmonic framework while maintaining the same infectious energy.
Clifford Brown was 24 to 25 years old at the time.
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