Influential jazz trumpeter. Teamed up with Max Roach to form the Brown-Roach Quintet until his untimely death in a car accident, driving between engagements.
Studied mathematics at Delaware State College and music at Maryland State College.
Has one son: Clifford Brown, Jr.
Friends with Benny Golson, Quincy Jones, and Max Roach.
Son of Joseph Brown, and Estella Brown.
Brother of Elsworth Brown, Eugene Anthony Brown, Geneva Brown, Harold Boyd Brown, Leon Brown, Marie Brown, and Rella Brown.