Memorial is a 1956 jazz album by trumpeter Clifford Brown, issued posthumously. It was originally released on the Prestige label as PRLP 7055. The album principally includes fast bop pieces, also arranged for a brass section.
Ira Gitler, who was supervising sessions for Prestige at the time, was greatly impressed by Brown: "When Brownie stood up and took his first solo on 'Philly J J', I nearly fell off my seat in the control room. The power, range and brilliance together with the warmth and invention was something that I hadn't heard since Fats Navarro."
Tracks 1–4 were recorded abroad with a Swedish All Star Group; tracks 5–9 were recorded in New York as a Tadd Dameron-led 10-inch LP minus the alternate take. Brown and Benny Golson were the only horn soloists.Original liner notes
Track listing "Stockholm Sweetnin'" (Quincy Jones) - 5:29 "'Scuse These Blues" (Quincy Jones) - 4:29 "Falling in Love with Love" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 5:25 "Lover Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 5:22 "Philly J J" (Tadd Dameron) - 5:14 "Dial 'B' for Beauty" (Dameron) - 4:37 "Theme of No Repeat" (Dameron) - 5:23 "Choose Now" [#1] (Dameron) - 4:57 "Choose Now" [#2] (Dameron) - 3:26
Tracks 1 – 4 recorded on September 15, 1953 in Stockholm and Tracks 5 – 9 recorded on June 11, 1953 in New York City
Personnel
On tracks 1–4 - (also released as Clifford Brown and Art Farmer with The Swedish All Stars) Clifford Brown - trumpet Art Farmer - trumpet Arne Domnerus - alto sax Lars Gullin - baritone sax Åke Persson - trombone Bengt Hallberg - piano Gunnar Johnson - double bass Jack Noren - drums
On tracks 5–9 - (also released as A Study In Dameronia) Clifford Brown - trumpet Benny Golson - tenor sax Idrees Sulieman - trumpet Gigi Gryce - alto sax Herb Mullins - trombone Oscar Estell - baritone sax Tadd Dameron - piano Percy Heath - bass Philly Joe Jones - drums
Production Quincy Jones - supervision (on tracks 1 – 4) Ira Gitler - supervision (on tracks 5 – 9) Doug Hawkins - engineer (on tracks 5 – 9)
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