The 30th anniversary of the DuPont Clifford Brown Jazz Festival, the East Coast’s largest free jazz festival kicks off June 17, and flows into the week. Opening the festival names for Wilmington's ...
For 22-year-old trumpeter Clifford Brown, the summer of 1953 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was transformative. Playing with bebop elders, he cumulatively opened the door for what came next: a ...
The Newport Jazz Festival was just one year old when the Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet blazed onto its stage in 1955. By 1960, when pianists Dave Brubeck and Horace Silver each played a rollicking ...