Essential Dave Brubeck

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Essential Dave Brubeck
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Artist: Dave Brubeck
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-03-25
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Indiana
  2. Perdido
  3. Take The 'A' Train
  4. Le Souk
  5. Audrey
  6. The Duke
  7. In Your Own Sweet Way
  8. Weep No More
  9. Some Day My Prince Will Come
  10. Tangerine
  11. Brandenburg Gate
  12. Three To Get Ready
  13. Blue Rondo A La Turk
  14. There'll Be Some Changes Made
Music CD 2
  1. Take Five
  2. Maria
  3. It's A Raggy Waltz
  4. Unsquare Dance
  5. Kathy's Waltz
  6. Travelin' Blues
  7. Summer Song
  8. That Old Black Magic
  9. Bossa Nova U.S.A.
  10. Autumn In Washington Square
  11. Theme From 'Mr. Broadway'
  12. La Paloma Azul
  13. Recuerdo
  14. Caravan
  15. Stardust
  16. Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?
  17. Love For Sale

Music reviews of Essential Dave Brubeck

Music Review: Essential, perhaps, but hardly adequate
Rating: 4 Stars

Brubeck's greatest popularity occurred during his association with Columbia Records, and this collection certainly documents some of the commercial and artistic highlights of this productive period. Particularly heartening is the inclusion of three tracks from the "Brubeck Plays Brubeck" solo piano album, including his exceptional improvisation on "In Your Own Sweet Way," an original that subsequently became a jazz standard. Still, this sampler does not include enough of the early work to dispell three widely held misconceptions: 1. that Brubeck and Desmond (or Brubeck and any other soloist) would regain the extraordinary chemistry of the 1950's quartet; 2. that the studio sessions, beginning with "Time Out," were equal if not superior to the earlier college concert dates; 3. that Brubeck's later experiments with time signatures represented an advance over his earlier adventurousness with melody, harmony, meter.

Neither Brubeck nor Desmond ever played with more in-the-moment inspired inventiveness than on their live 1950's dates. The excitement ensuing from their empathy with one another as well as their reactiveness to the palpable encouragement of their audiences was a singular moment in jazz history. In fact, during the 1950's they were to small-group modern jazz and its adherents what the Benny Goodman Big Band had been to attentive young listeners in the 1930s. The "Essential Dave Brubeck" provides only four examples from this fertile period, barely enough to whet the appetite. Moreover, the selections appear to be more abitrary than representative of this highly-charged edition of the quartet at its very best.

If you really want the essential Brubeck, be sure to supplement this collection with the '63 Carnegie Hall Concert but also with the earlier "Jazz at Oberlin" and "Jazz Goes to College." If the superior heat, intensity, and risk-taking extemporaneousness of these sessions recommend them over the later, more tepid, recordings, look next for "Jazz at the College of the Pacific, Volumes 1 and 2."
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Description of Essential Dave Brubeck

Dave Brubeck is a member of that charmed circle of improvising artists whose popularity is commensurate with his musical accomplishments. He has for nearly half a century been a major figure as pianist, composer, and leader of perhaps the most widely known and well-traveled quartet in the history of jazz. THE ESSENTIAL DAVE BRUBECK provides the ideal survey course in Brubeck Time with 31 tracks from 24 albums, spanning 53 years!

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