Best Coast Jazz

1956 studio album by Clifford Brown

Best Coast Jazz

Studio album by

Clifford Brown

Released

1956

Recorded

August 11, 1954

Studio

Capitol, 5515 Melrose, Hollywood

Genre

Jazz

Length

36:58

Label

EmArcy
MG 36039

Clifford Brown chronology

The Clifford Brown Sextet in Paris
(1953)

Best Coast Jazz
(1956)

Clifford Brown All Stars
(1954)

Best Coast Jazz is an album by American jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown featuring tracks recorded in 1954 and released on the EmArcy label.^[1] Further tracks from the same sessions were released as Clifford Brown All Stars in 1956 following Brown's untimely death.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]

AllMusic awarded the album 4½ stars and Scott Yanow, in his review, states "fine solos all around but Brownie's closing statement cuts everyone".^[2]

Track listing

"Coronado" (Johnny Coles) – 19:46
"You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 17:12

Personnel

References

^ EmArcy Records discography accessed October 5, 2012
^ ^a ^b Yanow, S. AllMusic Review accessed October 5, 2012

Clifford Brown

Years given are for the recording(s), years in square brackets refer to the listed 12" LP/CD release.

Albums as
leader

Memorial Album (Blue Note, 1953 [1956])
Memorial (Prestige, 1953 [1956])
Arranged by Montrose (Jack Montrose, 1954)/Jazz Immortal ([1956])
Jam Session (with Clark Terry & Maynard Ferguson, 1954)

Co-led/with
Max Roach

Best Coast Jazz (1954)
Clifford Brown All Stars (1954)
Clifford Brown & Max Roach (1954)
Brown and Roach Incorporated (1954)
Daahoud (1954)
Clifford Brown with Strings (1955)
Study in Brown (1955)
Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (1956)
Sonny Rollins Plus 4 (CB/MRQ, 1956)

Sideman
with others

A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 (Art Blakey, 1954)
A Night at Birdland Vol. 2 (Art Blakey, 1954)
A Night at Birdland Vol. 3 (Art Blakey, 1954)
Dinah Jams (Dinah Washington, 1954)
Helen Merrill (1954)
Sarah Vaughan (1954)

Compilations

Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years (with Max Roach, [1995])

v t e Max Roach
Albums	The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley (1953) Max Roach + 4 (1956) Jazz in 3/4 Time (1956–57) The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (1957–58) Award-Winning Drummer (1958) Booker Little 4 and Max Roach (1958) MAX (1958) Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene (1958) Max Roach + 4 at Newport (1958) Max Roach with the Boston Percussion Ensemble (1958) Deeds, Not Words (1958) Moon Faced and Starry Eyed (with Abbey Lincoln, 1959) Quiet as It's Kept (1959) Rich Versus Roach (and Buddy Rich, 1959) The Many Sides of Max (1959) Long as You're Living (1960) Parisian Sketches (1960) We Insist! (1960) Percussion Bitter Sweet (1961) It's Time (1962) Money Jungle (and Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, 1962) Speak, Brother, Speak! (1962) The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan (and Hasaan Ibn Ali, 1964) Drums Unlimited (1965) Members, Don't Git Weary (1968) Lift Every Voice and Sing (1971) Re: Percussion (M'Boom, Strata-East, 1973) Birth and Rebirth (and Anthony Braxton, 1978) Historic Concerts (and Cecil Taylor, 1979) M'Boom (1979) One in Two – Two in One (and Anthony Braxton, 1979) Pictures in a Frame (1979) The Long March (and Archie Shepp, 1979) In the Light (1982) Live at Vielharmonie (1983) Collage (M'Boom, 1984) It's Christmas Again (1984) Scott Free (1984) Survivors (1984) Easy Winners (1985) Bright Moments (1986) Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989 (and Dizzy Gillespie, 1989) To the Max! (1990–91)
With Clifford Brown	Best Coast Jazz (1954) Brown and Roach Incorporated (1954) Clifford Brown All Stars (1954) Clifford Brown & Max Roach (1954–55) Daahoud (1954) Jam Session (and Clark Terry, Maynard Ferguson, 1954) Clifford Brown with Strings (1955) Study in Brown (1955) Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (1956)
Compilations	Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years (1954–60)