''Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street'' (also known as ''At Basin Street'') is a 1956 album by the Clifford Brown and

Max Roach Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He work ...

Quintet, the last album the quintet officially recorded. Apart from '' Sonny Rollins Plus 4'', it was the last studio album Brown and pianist

Richie Powell Richard Powell (September 5, 1931 – June 26, 1956) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He was not assisted in his musical development by Bud, his older and better known brother, but both played predominantly in the bebop style. ...

recorded before their deaths in June that year. The title is a reference to the

Basin Street East Basin Street East was a notable nightclub of the 1960s in New York City. Several live albums were recorded there, including Peggy Lee's ''Basin Street East Proudly Presents Miss Peggy Lee'' (1961), and Billy Eckstine's '' At Basin St. East'' (1961 ...

jazz club, where the quintet had performed several times.

Track listing

All tracks arranged by

except 6. # "

What Is This Thing Called Love? "What Is This Thing Called Love?" is a 1929 popular song written by Cole Porter, for the musical '' Wake Up and Dream''. It was first performed by Elsie Carlisle in March 1929. The song has become a popular jazz standard and one of Porter's most ...

" ( Cole Porter) – 7:33 # " Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" ( Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster) – 4:13 # " I'll Remember April" ( Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) – 9:13 # "Powell's Prances" (

) – 3:28 # "Time" (

) – 5:03 # "The Scene Is Clean" (

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, arr. Dameron) – 6:04 # "Gertrude's Bounce" (Richie Powell) – 4:09 #: ''Bonus tracks included on the 2002 CD release:'' # "Step Lightly (Junior's Arrival)" ( Benny Golson) – 3:33 # "Flossie Lou" (Dameron) – 3:55 # "What Is This Thing Called Love? (alternate take)" – 8:18 # "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (breakdown)" – 0:45 # "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (alternate take)" – 3:53 # "I'll Remember April (breakdown)" – 1:25 # "I'll Remember April (alternate take)" – 9:42 # "Flossie Lou (alternate take)" – 4:00

Personnel

* Clifford Brown -

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

* Sonny Rollins –

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

–

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

, celesta * George Morrow –

double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar i ...

– drums

Critical reception

The album was identified by Scott Yanow in his

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essay "Hard Bop" as one of the 17 Essential Hard Bop Recordings.Yanow, Scott. "Hard Bop" -

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. - accessed December 7, 2009.

References

Clifford Brown albums Max Roach live albums Albums produced by Bob Shad EmArcy Records live albums 1956 live albums Hard bop albums Verve Records albums {{1950s-jazz-album-stub