Clifford Brown, Max Roach & The Erroll Garner Trio Live At Basin Street - 1956 (audio only)

Clifford Brown, Max Roach & the Erroll Garner Trio Live At Basin Street, CBS Radio, May 6 1956. Possibly last recording of Clifford Brown, made at The Basin Street in New York on May 6, 1956, features Brown along with Max Roach, sharing the stage with The Erroll Garner Trio. Clifford Brown - Trumpet Max Roach - Drums Clifford Benjamin Brown (October 30, 1930 – June 26, 1956) was an American jazz trumpeter. He died at the age of 25 in a car accident, leaving behind four years&worth of recordings. His compositions "Sandu", "Joy Spring", and "Daahoud" have become jazz standards. Brown won the DownBeat magazine Critics&Poll for New Star of the Year in 1954. In June 1956, Brown and Richie Powell embarked on a drive to Chicago for their next appearance. Powell&wife Nancy was at the wheel so that Clifford and Richie could sleep. While driving at night in the rain on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, west of Bedford, she is presumed to have lost control of the car, which went off the road, killing all three in the resulting crash. Brown is buried in Mt. Zion Cemetery, in Wilmington, Delaware. He was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1972. (Wikipedia).