Clifford Brown

Clifford Brown is one of the most important trumpet players in the history of jazz. Although he died at the young age of 25 in 1956, he remains today the greatest influence on trumpet players of the current generation. He was an accomplished virtuoso, the product of a middle-class, cultivated African-American family, and a positive influence, both in life-style and musical style, on jazz.

A University Performing Arts director and Professor of Music and Literature at Pace University, Dr. Nick Catalano has played, produced, taught and written about jazz throughout his life. He has also had an extensive television career as a writer-producer of films and documentaries. Dr. Catalano lives and writes in New York and East Hampton.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: The Brown Family of Wilmington
2: Boysie Lowery and Howard High
3: On to Philadelphia
4: The Brink of Disaster
5: Rhythm 'n' Blues
6: The Month of June
7: European High Jinks
8: New York and Home
9: California Surprise
10: Brown and Roach, Inc.
11: Back to the East
12: Into 1956
Epilogue
Notes
Selected and Annotated Discography
Index