#MaxRoach # CliffordBrown Joy Spring // Jazz Quartet // Taeyong Lee // Brush Drum Solo

Drums - Taeyong Lee Bass - Nagyeong Lee Piano - Hye In Roh Saxophone - Quamon Fowler “Joy Spring“ is a 1954 jazz composition by Clifford Brown that became his signature work. The title was his pet name for his wife Larue. Brown first recorded “Joy Spring“ in a studio session led by him on August 6, 1954, at Capitol Recording Studios, in Los Angeles, with Harold Land (tenor sax), Richie Powell (piano), George Morrow (bass), and Max Roach (drums). They did two takes – 10877-3 and 10877-4. Six days later (August 12, 1954), at the same studio, Brown, as leader, recorded Jack Montrose’s arrangement of it with Stu Williamson (valve trombone), Zoot Sims (tenor sax), Bob Gordon (baritone sax), Russ Freeman (piano), Joe Mondragon (bass), and Shelly Manne (drums). That take has been issued on several albums, including Jazz Messages (Jazztone J-1281), Clifford Brown & Max Roach (Pacific Jazz CDP 7 46850 2), and Jazz Imortal – Featuring Zoot Sims (1988; Pacific Jazz C