I Remember Clifford (song)
I Remember Clifford is a jazz composition of the tenor saxophonist and arranger Benny Golson.
For the first time it was recorded by Benny Golson for his album Benny Golson And The Philadelphians on 12 December 1958. Benny Golson played recently in Dizzy Gillespie's band of 1956 until 1958. In this formation he made himself as a playwright a name. The composition I Remember Clifford was written under the impression of the painful loss of time just fatally injured trumpeter Clifford Brown. So Benny Golson has composed this piece in 1956 spontaneously during a performance with the Gillespie band when the musicians learned of the fatal accident of their friend and colleague about his piece and Golson Whisper Not improvised. I Remember Clifford later became a jazz standard, and is next to Django as the " most played Epitaph piece of jazz ."
I Remember Clifford was by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Arturo Sandoval, Bud Powell, Cedar Walton, Don Byas, JR Monte Rose, Keith Jarrett, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Oscar Peterson, Nancy Wilson, Slide Hampton, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Tete Montoliu, Yusef Lateef, The Manhattan Transfer and other musicians interpreted.
Discography
- Art Farmer, Benny Golson Jazztet: The Complete Argo / Mercury Art Farmer / Benny Golson Jazztet Sessions ( Mosaic, 1960-1963 )