Someone asked me yesterday what the period after Labor Day and before autumn on September 22 feels like if I could choose just one recording. My reply was All Weird, not for the title but because of the way the Clifford Brown Octet sounds on Brown's original song. Recorded in Paris in 1953 and likely arranged by Gigi Gryce or Quincy Jones, the group fea…
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