condition (record/cover): VG+ (occasional crackling and one mark not affecting play / VG+ (ring wear)

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Exactly what the title says, and almost unbearable for it: Clifford Brown's earliest 1952 sides with an R&B outfit, and then the final recordings - the legendary 1956 Music City jam, taped informally in Philadelphia just before the car crash that took him at twenty-five. "A Night in Tunisia" from that last night is one of the most treasured performances in trumpet history: Brownie relaxed among friends, endless, pouring out chorus after chorus for the sheer joy of it, the ideas arriving faster than seems possible, with no idea of what the road held hours later. Between the two poles, the whole arc of the most mourned career in jazz - the warmth, the architecture, the joy that never needed shadow to be profound.

Columbia assembled this document in 1973 and it has never stopped circulating among the faithful, passed along like the relic it honestly is. Beautiful and heartbreaking in equal measure, and a necessary record in the fullest sense of the word.