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November 21, 2006

Clifford Brown on a Soupy Sales TV show

Jazz trumpet genius killed at age 25.

Quoth the wikipedia:

In June, 1956, Brown and Powell were being driven from Philadelphia to Chicago by Powell's wife Nancy, for the band's next appearance. While driving at night on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, a few miles west of Bedford, she lost control of the car on a wet stretch of the road, and all three were killed.

In my mind, I'd always pictured him as a tall man. But he seems to be short compared to Soupy Sales.

Posted by tplambeck at 01:39 AM

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