Toshiko Akiyoshi Smithsonian Interview Block 404 (Q18357)

But Clifford Brown was ... if you met him, I was so surprised, because if you met him on the street, you would never guess he was a jazz player. He looked like a-- and he was so sane (serious) too, he was very sane--he couldve been an insurance company (salesman) (laughs). I think he was, Max Roach was quite, quite ... attached to Clifford Brown, because when he died by car crash, he really wa ...