New Jazz Tunes

This is an ode to the immortal trumpeter CLIFFORD BROWN.

 Lead sheet is in D Minor

This tune should have a

Medium tempo MODAL-BOP FEEL

                 LYRICS

    [this is optional - can be played on trumpet}

I hear a silence where love once was.

                  VAMP                                     [There is also an alternate INTRO]

Way back long ago lived a legend we all know.

And he blew his sweet horn,

like no one had done before.

Clifford Brown's the name

and the trumpet was his game.

He was a star who burned so bright,

'til one dark and misty night.

And oh why did he die now -

you know he was a true genius,

and he had something to say.

I know time keeps on movin',

but I really hear him groovin'

right to the beat of my heart always.

There was so much from this

young mans gorgeous horn,

but on a dark and lonely road -

the Lord took Clifford home.

          [SOLOS]

What a sound he had.

Clifford Brown was warm and so bad.

He was brilliant and so new,

when he left this world too soon.

Take a step on back

to the band he had with Max,

and let your heart take on wings,

when young Clifford does "Joy Spring!"

        [HORN VAMP]

All the years can go by now,         [Music option - no words]

but time never really changes -

I hear his trumpet today!

You know he was a genius -

I mean really a true genius

He'll never be back this way again.

         [MODULATION] Fminor

I really can hear him now

with that flat out gorgeous sound.

He gave Jazz all that he had, 

and what he left us is so grand.

Clifford Brown is gone,

but his legend still lives on.

He was brilliant and so new.

He was too good to be true

on that dark misty night -

when the world lost one bright light,

when the world lost one bright light!

                                                            Jack Cassidy, trumpet

                                                             Paul Coscino, keys

                                                             Donald Jackson, bass

                                                             Redd Holt, drums

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