''Clifford Brown All Stars'' (also released as ''Caravan'') is an album by American jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown featuring tracks recorded in 1954 but released on the EmArcy label posthumously in 1956.EmArcy Records discography
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Reception

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awarded the album 3 stars and Stewart Mason, in his review, states "While nowhere close to bottom-of-the-barrel scrapings, these are clearly inferior performances".Mason, S
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Track listing

# " Caravan" ( Irving Mills, Juan Tizol, Duke Ellington) – 15:10 # " Autumn in New York" (

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) – 21:35

Personnel

* Clifford Brown –

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– alto saxophone *

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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 ...

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* Curtis Counce – bass *

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– drums

References

{{Authority control 1956 albums Clifford Brown albums EmArcy Records albums