Clifford Brown - Catalano, Nick (, Performing Arts Director and Professor of Music and Literature at Pace University, Pleasantville)

Clifford Brown is one of the most important trumpet players in the history of jazz. Although he died at the young age of 25 in 1956, he remains today the greatest influence on trumpet players of the current generation. He was an accomplished virtuoso, the product of a middle-class, cultivated African-American family, and a positive influence, both in life-style and musical style, on jazz.