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.

Best Coast Jazz
Studio album by
Released1956
RecordedAugust 11, 1954
StudioCapitol, 5515 Melrose, Hollywood
GenreJazz
Length36:58
LabelEmArcy
MG 36039
Clifford Brown chronology
The Clifford Brown Sextet in Paris
(1953)
Best Coast Jazz
(1956)
Clifford Brown All Stars
(1954)

Reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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 edit

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

Personnel edit

References edit

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