Anything by the Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet is essential jazz. These guys blew the roof off with their swinging incarnation of bebop by they formed in the mid-50s. Clifford Brown and Max Roach are joined by Richie Powell on piano (brother of Bud Powell), Harold Land on tenor saxophone, and George Morrow on bass.

"A Study In Brown" is actually a study in the music of bebop and if this study had to be graded for school it would be given an A. Highly recommended.

Study in Brown is a striking moment in one of the most creative periods in jazz history. It also very clearly predicts where Brown would have reached had he not been so prematurely taken from this world
The beauty of this album is that it is surprisingly easily listen of some very complex playing. The Brown - Roach combination is clean but soulful. More than anything I would recommend it as one of those albums that will open a fresh door to one of those listening episodes that puts much of what is happening today into context. Like Bach there is a mathematics in its genius especially in Max Roach's controlled energy, but Brown's sound ...that's something else.
You'll remember Clifford.

This classic is a must for anyone serious about the modern Jazz genre. Here, the truly incomparable Clifford Brown, shows us how the best of Jazz is to be performed. He and Max Roach team up to "let it all hang out." Clifford says about all he has to say on this one album, his symmetrical high intensity uptempo solos, his beautiful phrasing: Everything else after this album is a restatement.

His incredible range and virtuosity is prominently on display on the up-tempo "Cherokee." This is the version that set the inner circles of the Jazz world on fire, and stamped Brown as the best trumpeter in the land. He was headed into a Jazz orbit of his own when his life was cut short in a tragic car crash on the Pennsylvania turnpike.

Every tune on this album is a classic and will seduce you like no other album can. This, for me, is the Jazz album of the Century: pick any century. Fifty stars

Study in Brown is the ultimate album from the ultimate trumpet player. There is no way to describe how cookin' they are. All the player are top notch as well of course. This is one of the best jazz albums ever made.

This is the first and only Brown & Roach incorporated album that I've heard, and it's marvelous. Tragic to know that Brownie died before he could have put music on wax, but this is a beautiful entry into Brown & Roach's short collaboration... it's worth every dollar you spend on it, and don't download for free somewhere...