The Beginning and the End (Clifford Brown album)
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| The Beginning and the End | |
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| Compilation album by | |
| Released | 1973 |
| Recorded | March 21, 1952 & June 25, 1956 |
| Venue | Music City Club |
| Genre | Hard bop Bebop |
| Length | 34:22 |
| Label | Columbia |
| Producer | Don Schlitten |
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  [1] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |  [2] |
The Beginning and the End (Columbia Records, 1973) is a Clifford Brown compilation album. The album opens with two tracks that Clifford Brown recorded with Chris Powell's Blue Flames in 1952, and ends with recordings of a session held at Music City Club in Philadelphia in 1956.[1] According to the liner notes, they are "The first and last recorded performances of one of the greatest soloists in the history of Jazz."[3] According to Nick Catalano's biography of Clifford Brown, the Music City Club session could have taken place on May 31, 1955.[4]
The AllMusic reviewer concluded that "Clifford Brown's playing on this date is so memorable that the LP is essential for all jazz collections."[1] Fellow trumpeter Christian Scott said that as a child he heard the album and thought that Brown "had a lot of heart and was compassionate".[5] Returning to the album much later, he realised that Brown "was playing some pretty impossible things on the instrument [...] There's stuff that this guy did with the instrument that many fifty year old trumpet players would never attempt".[5]
