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Brownie: Homage to Clifford Brown

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Released
  
May 12, 1998

Length
  
62:47

Release date
  
12 May 1998

Genre
  
Vocal jazz

Recorded
  
1995

Artist
  
Helen Merrill

Label
  
Gitanes Jazz Productions

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Producer
  
Helen Merrill, Jean-Philippe Allard

Brownie Homage to Clifford Brown (1995)
  
You and the Night and the Music (1998)

Similar
  
Helen Merrill albums, Other albums

Brownie: Homage to Clifford Brown is a 1995 studio album by Helen Merrill, recorded in tribute to the trumpeter Clifford Brown.

Contents

Merrill had recorded an album with Brown in 1956.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album four and a half stars and said that "Throughout the often emotional date, Helen Merrill is heard in top form, giving plenty of feeling to the lyrics while leaving room for the guest trumpeters".

Track listing

  1. "Your Eyes" (Chick Corea, Helen Merrill) – 6:17
  2. "Daahoud" (Clifford Brown) – 2:58
  3. "(I Was) Born to Be Blue" (Mel Tormé, Bob Wells) – 5:16
  4. "I Remember Clifford" (Benny Golson, Jon Hendricks) – 7:00
  5. "Joy Spring" (Brown) – 3:59
  6. "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) – 7:14
  7. "Don't Explain" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday) – 6:18
  8. "Brownie" (Torrie Zito) – 5:04
  9. "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Cole Porter) – 4:33
  10. "I'll Be Seeing You" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal) – 4:53
  11. "Memories of You" (Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf) – 3:52
  12. "Gone with the Wind" (Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel) – 2:28
  13. "Largo" (Samuel Barber, Antonín Dvořák) – 2:55

Personnel

Performance
  • Helen Merrill – producer, vocals
  • Roy Hargrove – flugelhorn, trumpet
  • Tom Harrell
  • Wallace Roney – trumpet
  • Lew Soloff
  • Roy Soloff
  • Torrie Zito – arranger, director, keyboards, music direction
  • Kenny Barron – piano
  • Rufus Reid – double bass
  • Victor Lewis – drums
    • Production
  • Patrice Beauséjour – art direction
  • Mark Agostino – assistant engineer
  • Brian Kinkland
  • Arthur Friedman
  • Jay Newland – engineer, mastering, mixing
  • Aissa Martin – hair stylist, make-up
  • Beth Kelly – photography
  • Cheung Ching Ming
  • Jean-Philippe Allard – producer

    • Songs

    1Your Eyes6:17
    2Daahoud2:58
    3Born to Be Blue5:16

    References

    Brownie: Homage to Clifford Brown Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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