Mercury Records Collection: Limelight LM 2-8201: The Immortal Clifford Brown

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LM 2-8201: The Immortal Clifford Brown

Label Type :	green Limelight promotional
Matrix Number :	DISC 1 SIDE-A	LM 2-8201A M1 LM 82011 A RR
	DISC 1 SIDE-B	LM 2-8201B M1 LM 82011 B RR
	DISC 2 SIDE-A	LM 2-8201C M1 LM 82012 A RR
	DISC 2 SIDE-B	LM 2-8201D M1 LM 82012 B RR

Comments

Equivalent release: Limelight LS 2-8601 (fake stereo).

promotional copy for broadcast.

original gatefold cover with silver sticker and original booklet.

B-1 “Flossie Lou” and B-4 “Jordu” (complete version) are both firstly appeared on this album.

Inside The Groove

A nice 2LP compilation of Clifford Brown in his EmArcy era.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

Strictly Personal Rating (to what extent I could enjoy this album)

10 out of 10

Track Listing

DISC 1 SIDE-A
A-1	Cherokee (Indian Love Song) (Ray Noble)	5:41	from EmArcy MG-36037
A-2	I've Got You Under My Skin (Cole Porter)	5:22	from EmArcy MG-36000
A-3	Willow Weep For Me (Ann Ronell)	3:25	from EmArcy MG-36005
A-4	Daahoud (Clifford Brown)	4:10	from EmArcy MG-36036
DISC 1 SIDE-B
B-1	Flossie Lou (Tadd Dameron)	4:50	(previously unissued)
B-2	September Song (Maxwell Anderson & Kurt Weill)	5:45	from EmArcy MG-36004
B-3	Laura (from the motion picture “Laura”) (David Ruskin & Johnny Mercer)	3:16	from EmArcy MG-36005
B-4	Jordu (complete version) (Duke Jordan)	7:39	from EmArcy MG-36036
DISC 2 SIDE-A
A-1	Lover Come Back To Me (Romberg & Hammerstein)	9:40	from EmArcy MG-36000
A-2	Stardust (Hoagy Carmichael & Mitchell Parish)	3:25	from EmArcy MG-36005
A-3	Parisian Thoroughfare (Bud Powell)	7:14	from EmArcy MG-36036
DISC 2 SIDE-B
B-1	Joy Spring (Clifford Brown)	6:48	from EmArcy MG-36036
B-2	It's Crazy (Timmie Rogers & Al Fields)	4:54	from EmArcy MG-36004
B-3	Gertrude's Bounce (Richard Powell)	4:10	from EmArcy MG-36070
B-4	Embraceable You (G. & I. Gershwin)	2:59	from EmArcy MG-36005

Personnel

Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
(“The Mercury Labels - A Discography” by Ruppli and Novitsky, Greenwood Press, 1993)

DISC 1 B-1:
The Clifford Brown - Max Roach Quintet:
Clifford Brown (tp), Sonny Rollins (ts), Richard Powell (p), George Morrow (b), Max Roach (ds).
Recorded in New York City, February 17, 1956.

other tunes: see original LPs' pages :)