- 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.
- Uncle of Rayford Griffin.
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