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Clifford Brown

1930 - 1956

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Clifford Benjamin Brown (October 30, 1930 – June 26, 1956) was an American jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer. He died at the age of 25 in a car crash, leaving behind four years' worth of recordings. His compositions "Sandu", "Joy Spring", and "Daahoud" have become jazz standards. Brown won the DownBeat magazine Critics' Poll for New Star of the Year in 1954; he was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1972. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Clifford Brown is the 661st most popular musician (down from 629th in 2019), the 3,711th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,240th in 2019) and the 201st most popular American Musician.

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Among musicians, Clifford Brown ranks 661 out of 3,175. Before him are Euronymous, Emanuel Feuermann, Chad Smith, Jörg Demus, Gaspara Stampa, and Rezső Seress. After him are Wendy Carlos, Axel Rudi Pell, Curtis Mayfield, Peter Schreier, Conrad Graf, and Ben Webster.

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Among people born in 1930, Clifford Brown ranks 203. Before him are Yi-Fu Tuan, Anthony Steffen, Paul Veyne, Venantino Venantini, Arnaldo Ochoa, and Jan P. Syse. After him are Viktor Tikhonov, Clive Revill, Yuan Longping, Israel Kirzner, Goro Shimura, and Yuri Artyukhin. Among people deceased in 1956, Clifford Brown ranks 96. Before him are Auguste Chevalier, Évariste Lévi-Provençal, Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia, André Marty, Carl Brockelmann, and Jimmie Angel. After him are Norman L. Bowen, Marcel Griaule, Frigyes Riesz, Victor Young, George Sarton, and Walter Gieseking.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clifford Brown ranks 3,711 out of 20,380. Before him are Lorenzo Lamas (1958), Bonnie Hunt (1961), Harry Hopkins (1890), Richard Conte (1910), William Peter Blatty (1928), and Steve Kanaly (1946). After him are Celeste Holm (1917), Asa Gray (1810), Anne Meara (1929), Nikki Reed (1988), Nick Castle (1947), and Charlie Hickcox (1947).

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Among musicians born in United States, Clifford Brown ranks 201. Before him are Van Cliburn (1934), Tyler, the Creator (1991), Gerry Mulligan (1927), Archie Shepp (1937), Joan Jett (1958), and Chad Smith (1961). After him are Wendy Carlos (1939), Curtis Mayfield (1942), Ben Webster (1909), Tico Torres (1953), Tom Fogerty (1941), and Eric Singer (1958).

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