Clifford Brown, American trumpet player and composer (died 1956)

Clifford Brown

American jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer (1930–1956)

Clifford Benjamin Brown was an American jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer. He died at the age of 25 in a car crash, leaving behind four years' worth of recordings. His compositions "Sandu", "Joy Spring", and "Daahoud" have become jazz standards. Brown won the DownBeat…