Technically, Clifford Brown grew up in the neighboring suburb of Wilmington, Delaware, but it was the city of Philadelphia that really nurtured this genius of the trumpet, according to jazz historian Charles Carson.

During this time, it's important to note that Philly was a thriving jazz community.

And as a result, it was not uncommon to have youngsters into jazz.

You know, it sounds crazy today, but at the time it was sort of, it was what kids were doing.

And it would be sort of expected that if a big-name musician came through and played a club, he would do a master class, you know, the day before the gig or the night, the morning after the gig or something.

to sort of give something back to the young fans and the young musicians in the area.

Kids would pay a dollar, a couple of cents or whatever, and get in and have a little master class and sort of would be capped off by maybe a jam session or something.

What do you think it is about his playing that people really connected with? Well,