THE CLIENTELE The Violet Hour SALT 'N' PEPA with Absolute Elsewhere Ivo Malec with Absolute Elsewhere The incomparable trumpeter Clifford Brown’s star was just starting to ascend when he recorded two sessions as a leader for Blue Note in 1953 — a co led quintet date with alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson and a sextet date under his own name — that were later compiled on the 12" LP Memorial Album (BLP 1526) shortly after his tragic death in a car accident in 1956 its languid melodies and reverb drenched choruses at once sublime and tragic What they emerged with from London’s Medina Road Studios in the fall of 2002 was tantalising: Their already sharply realised motif of ’60s psychedelia and modern fuzz pop took on inflections of jazz