I Remember Clifford

Art Farmer & Benny Golson Jazztet · 1960 · Written in 1956 as a tribute to Clifford Brown; Jazztet version on Meet the Jazztet (Argo, 1960). First recorded version: Donald Byrd and Gigi Gryce, 1957.

Context

Ballad by Benny Golson in tribute to Clifford Brown, here in the version by the Jazztet, which he co-led with Art Farmer, cut on February 6, 9, and 10, 1960, at Nola Penthouse Studios in New York for Argo, on the group's first album. The track is a showcase for Farmer's trumpet, who had already recorded it twice; critic Bob Blumenthal called this reading definitive. The sextet includes the young McCoy Tyner on piano.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Hard bop: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Killer Joe (1960)
• Whisper Not (1957)

Sources

• EN: Meet the Jazztet

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