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Title: Brownie with Strings
Review: As I sit her at my computer & listen to this CD, I am reminded "Brownie," was an influential and highly rated American jazz trumpeter. He died aged 25, leaving behind only four years' worth of recordings. Nonetheless, he had a considerable influence on later jazz trumpet players, including Donald Byrd, Lee Morgan, Booker Little, Freddie Hubbard, Valery Ponomarev, and Wynton Marsalis.I am not a big fan of "With Strings" albums, but this one ranks with the "With Strings Albums of Chet Baker, Charlie Parker & Paul Desmond.There is no need to name the songs; Amazon has already given a full set of samples on this site. They are all ballads, & what more can I say. The arrangements are good, & I recommend it highly as a pro jazz musician.I might add that unlike many jazz musicians of that era, Browhnie was a clean living, non-heroin user unlike Bird. He died tragically in an auto accident.
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