Clifford Brown
Trumpet Solo on
If I Love Again

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Opening the solo section, this trumpet improvisation spans one chorus of the 36-bar ABAC form at an uptempo swing feel at 254 BPM. Brown opens with a single chorus of trumpet improvisation, bringing his characteristic warmth, melodic logic, and technical assurance to the tune's sophisticated changes. 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.