Clifford Brown - Brownie: The Complete EmArcy Recordings [11 CD, 1989]

  

The remarkable but short-lived trumpeter Clifford Brown has the second half of his career fully documented (other than his final performance) and he is showcased in a wide variety of settings. The bulk of the numbers are of Brownie's quintet with co-leader and drummer Max Roach, either Harold Land or Sonny Rollins on tenor, pianist Richie Powell, and bassist George Morrow (including some previously unheard alternate takes), but there is also much more. Brown stars at several jam sessions (including a meeting with fellow trumpeters Clark Terry and Maynard Ferguson), accompanies such singers as Dinah Washington, Helen Merrill, and Sarah Vaughan, and is backed by strings on one date. Everything is here, including classic versions of "Parisian Thoroughfare," "Joy Spring," "Daahoud," "Coronado," a ridiculously fast "Move," "Portrait of Jenny," "Cherokee," "Sandu," "I'll Remember April," and "What Is This Thing Called Love?"
                                                                    


Disc 1

1 Delilah
2 Darn That Dream
3 Parisian Thoroughfare
4 Jordu
5 Sweet Clifford
6 Sweet Clifford (Clifford's Fantasy) [Alternate Take]
7 I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You [Alternate Take]
8 I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
9 Stompin' at the Savoy
10 I Get a Kick Out of You
11 I Get a Kick Out of You [Alternate Take]
12 I'll String Along With You

Disc 2

1 Joy Spring [Alternate Take]
2 Joy Spring
3 Mildama [Alternate Take]
4 Mildama [Alternate Take]
5 Mildama [Alternate Take]
6 Mildama [Alternate Take]
7 Mildama [Alternate Take]
8 Mildama [Alternate Take]
9 Mildama
10 These Foolish Things
11 Daahoud
12 Daahoud [Alternate Take]


Disc 3

1 Coronado [Alternate Take]
2 Coronado [Alternate Take]
3 Coronado


Disc 4

1 You Go to My Head
2 Caravan
3 Caravan
4 Autumn in New York


Disc 5

1 Introduction by Bob Shad - Clifford Brown
2 What Is This Thing Called Love?
3 I've Got You Under My Skin
4 No More
5 Move
6 Darn That Dream


Disc 6

1 You Go to My Head
2 My Funny Valentine/Don't Worry 'Bout Me/Bess, You Is My Woman ...
3 Lover, Come Back to Me
4 Alone Together/Summertime/Come Rain or Come Shine
5 Crazy He Calls Me
6 There Is No Greater Love
7 I'll Remember April


Disc 7

1 September Song
2 Lullaby of Birdland [Alternate Take]
3 Lullaby of Birdland
4 I'm Glad There Is You
5 You're Not the Kind
6 Jim
7 He's My Guy
8 April in Paris
9 It's Crazy
10 Embraceable You


Disc 8

1 Don't Explain
2 Born to Be Blue
3 You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
4 'S Wonderful
5 Yesterdays
6 Falling in Love With Love
7 What's New?
8 Portrait of Jenny
9. What's New?
10 Yesterdays
11 Where or When
12 Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
13 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
14 Laura
15 Memories of You
16 Embraceable You
17 Blue Moon
18 Willow Weep for Me
19 Stardust


Disc 9

1 Gerkin for Perkin
2 Take the "A" Train
3 Land's End [Alternate Take]
4 Land's End
5 Swingin'
6 George's Dilemma
7 If I Love Again
8 Blues Walk
9 Blues Walk
10 What Am I Here For?
11 Cherokee
12 Jacqui
13 Sandu
14 Gertrude's Bounce
15 Step Lightly (Junior's Arrival)
16 Powell's Prances


Disc 10

1 I'll Remember April
2 I'll Remember April [Alternate Take]
3 I'll Remember April [Alternate Take]
4 Time
5 Scene Is Clean
6 Flossie Lou [Alternate Take]
7 Flossie Lou [Alternate Take]
8 Flossie Lou [Alternate Take]
9 Flossie Lou
10 What Is This Thing Called Love? [Alternate Take]
11 What Is This Thing Called Love?
12 Love Is a Many Splendored Thing [Alternate Take]
13 Love Is a Many Splendored Thing [Alternate Take]
14 Love Is a Many Splendored Thing


Disc 11

1. Flossie Lou