In the fall of 1953, while on tour in North Africa with Lionel Hampton, trumpeter Clifford Brown and the band stopped in Algeria. There, it is assumed, the essence of his composition Daahoud came together. It's unclear who Daahoud was or if Brown even knew someone by that name. What we do know is that when Brown returned to the States, he began to recor…
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