Featured Jazz Legends + A Great Day at JAZZRADIO.com

JAZZRADIO.com Newsletter [JazzRadio.com logo]( [Jazz Legends Clifford Brown and Fats Navarro]( It would be hard to name two more impactful trumpeters than Clifford Brown, who would be turning 89 on October 30 and Fats Navarro, who would have turned 96 on September 24. Although both careers were cut tragically short (Brown died in a car crash in 1956, Navarro of a heroin overdose in 1950), both players left an irreversible impact on the jazz scene. More than 60 years after his death, Brown’s sweet, clean sound and virtuoso technique continues to bring to mind the vocals of Ella Fitzgerald, and his legendary collaboration efforts in 1953-54 with drummer Max Roach are still a standard of excellence for both trumpet players and drummers. Ironically, Brown had modeled his performance style in part after Navarro, seven years older, who had also emerged from his teenage years as an up-and-coming phenomenon who collaborated easily with leading lights including Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and others. And speaking of Gillespie… did any musician play a bigger role in the development of bebop than The Diz? During a professional career that spanned more than 50 years, Gillespie’s famous bent trumpet remains one of the 20th century’s most recognizable images, and his often understated composition and improvisation styles helped pave the emergence of bebop style during the 1950s and 60s. So tune in to JAZZRADIO.com’s [Trumpet Jazz](, [Bebop]( and [Hard Bop]( channels to celebrate these and other jazz legends, where the music never dies! [A Great Day on JAZZRADIO.com!]( If, as the adage goes, a picture is worth 1000 words, then few images better convey the passion and energy of New York City’s mid-century jazz scene than Art Kane’s iconic black-and-white photograph A Great Day in Harlem. Taken for Esquire magazine in 1957, the photoshoot brought together 57 of the era’s leading jazzers and personifies the neighborhood’s role in the city’s status as America’s unchallenged art and music capital. The photo itself is a virtual class portrait for a jazz “hall of fame” (and for JAZZRADIO.com, a trove of material for our curators!). Nearly every instrument and mid-century style are represented, from trumpeters Art Farmer ([Hard Bop]() and Dizzy Gillespie ([Modern Big Band]() to legendary bandmaster Count Basie ([Swing & Big Band](, [Modern Big Band]() to tenor sax player Benny Golson ([Hard Bop]() to drummer Gene Krupa ([Timeless Classics](). For those people lucky enough to spend some time in New York, a short drive along 125th Street - Harlem’s main thoroughfare - is enough to get a feel for the legendary neighborhood’s glorious past. For the rest of us, JAZZRADIO.com brings the history and passion of this iconic age to life 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! [iOS App]( [Android App]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( Radio Now, LLC. 501 S. Cherry St, Suite 1100 Denver CO, 80246 To unsubscribe or change your email settings, [Click Here](