Tune of the Week: Clifford Brown and Max Roach

One of the great tragedies of jazz is the untimely death of the great trumpet player Clifford Brown. In his early twenties he was a member of one of the most famous iterations of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. His quintet with Max Roach set the bebop world on its head. In four years he made an indelible impression on the jazz world and died in a car crash at the tender age of 25. RIP.