"Where do such talents come from? Such musicians as Clifford...and how do we come to deserve such gifts? This sudden generosity.....the unexplainable giving that occurs in the midst of deprivation...for I discovered the moment of Clifford deep in the misery of one of the hardest years of my life. A door opened... and his music...unexpected and unearned by me was...suddenly mine, pure, clear, and free, as water was in my first years..."
Philip Levine
Friend of jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown
who died at the age of twenty six in an auto
accident. Philip Levine is the author of eighteen
volumes of poetry..... a book of essays, and most
recently"the Simple Truth"
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