American jazz trumpet player.
Born October 30, 1930, Wilmington, Delaware, USA; died June 26, 1956, Bedford, Pennsylvania, USA in a car crash.
He was encouraged by both and , that latter of which was Brown's main influence. He performed with R&B bandleader , , , and before forming his own group with , the Quintet.
In June 1956, Brown and were being driven from Philadelphia to Chicago by Powell's wife Nancy for the band's next appearance. While driving on a rainy night on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, west of Bedford, she lost control of the car and it went off the road. All three were killed in the resulting crash. Brown is buried in Mt. Zion Cemetery, in Wilmington, Delaware.
He won the Down Beat critics' poll for the New Star of the Year in 1954; he was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in 1972 in the critics' poll.
Name Vars
- Brown
- Brown-Clifford
- Brownie
- C Brown
- C. Brown
- C.Brown
- Cl. Brown
- Cliff Brown
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- Clifford Benjamin Brown
- Cliford Brow
- Cliford Brown
- Jam Session Mercury
- Sweet Clifford
- К. Браун
- Клифорд Браун
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