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Nick Bianchini and Ben Flock performing
I Remember Clifford (song writer Benny Golson)
2007 Honor Band Live! at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Santa Cruz Jazz Festival
Nick Bianchini and Ben Flock with Jeremy Cross on Drums.
Video by: Karri Thygersen

I Remember Clifford is the name of a jazz threnody written by jazz tenor saxophone player Benny Golson in memory of Clifford Brown, the influential and highly-rated jazz trumpeter who died in an auto accident when he was only 25 years old; he and Golson had done a stint in Lionel Hampton's band together.

The song became an instant standard, as musicians paid tribute to Brown by recording their personal reading of it. Golson later said: took me several weeks, but I'd never written a composition like it before. I wanted to create a melody that the public would remember, and associate it with [him].

I Remember Clifford is also the name of an album by Arturo Sandoval; the entire album is a tribute to Brown, who was a great influence on Sandoval, and features Golson's tune.

Notable recordings of I Remember Clifford

* Dizzy Gillespie, The Big Band Sound of Dizzy Gillespie (Verve, 1957)
* Art Farmer & Benny Golson, Meet The Jazztet
* Arturo Sandoval, I Remember Clifford (GRP Records, 1992)