Memorial is a 1956 jazz album by trumpeter Clifford Brown,[1] issued posthumously. It was originally released on the Prestige label as PRLP 7055. The album principally includes fast bop pieces, also arranged for a brass section.
Ira Gitler, who was supervising sessions for Prestige at the time, was greatly impressed by Brown: "When Brownie stood up and took his first solo on 'Philly J J', I nearly fell off my seat in the control room. The power, range and brilliance together with the warmth and invention was something that I hadn't heard since Fats Navarro."
Tracks 1-4 were recorded abroad with a Swedish All Star Group; tracks 5-9 were recorded in New York as a Tadd Dameron-led 10-inch LP minus the alternate take. Brown and Benny Golson were the only horn soloists.[2]
