The Modest Jazz Trio: Good Friday Blues LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) ETJS-60 The incomparable trumpeter Clifford Brown’s

The incomparable trumpeter Clifford Brown’s star was just starting to ascend when he recorded two sessions as a leader for Blue Note in 1953 — a co-led quintet date with alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson and a sextet date under his own name — that were later compiled on the 12" LP Memorial Album (BLP 1526) shortly after his tragic death in a car accident in 1956

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The Modest Jazz Trio: Good Friday Blues LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) ETJS-60 The incomparable trumpeter Clifford Brown’sBlue Note, 1960 Recorded in the wee hours of Good Friday 1960, this charming and impromptu Pacific Jazz session captured the easygoing alchemy of The Modest Jazz Trio featuring Jim Hall on guitar, Red Mitchell on piano, and Red Kelly on bass. Good Friday Blues would be the trios sole album, a sublimely swinging date that did indeed begin with the modest expectations of capturing a single track for a blues anthology that Richard Bock was producing. But