Clifford Brown
Trumpet Solo on
Jacqui

About

Opening the solo section, this trumpet improvisation spans one chorus of the 36-bar AABA form at a medium-up swing tempo of 188 BPM. Trumpeter Clifford Brown opens the solo section with a single chorus, delivering the warm tone, impeccable technique, and singing melodic lines that characterized his brief but enormously influential career. The 36-bar form provides a defined harmonic landscape for the improvisation. Following this solo, Harold Land takes over on tenor sax.

Clifford Brown was 24 to 25 years old at the time.