For All Time

Dave Brubeck - For All Time

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Artist: Dave Brubeck
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2004-03-02
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Blue Rondo A La Turk
  2. Strange Meadowlark
  3. Take Five
  4. Three To Get Ready
  5. Kathy's Waltz
  6. Everybody's Jumpin'
  7. Pick Up Sticks
Music CD 2
  1. It's A Raggy Waltz
  2. Bluette
  3. Charles Mathew Halleujah
  4. Far More Blue
  5. Far More Drums
  6. Maori Blues
  7. Unsquare Dance
  8. Bru's Boogie Woogie
  9. Blue Shadows In The Street
  10. Slow And Easy
  11. It's A Raggy Waltz (Live At Carnegie Hall)
Music CD 3
  1. Countdown
  2. Eleven Four
  3. Why Phillis Waltz
  4. Someday My Prince Will Come
  5. Castilian Blues
  6. Castilian Drums
  7. Fast Life
  8. Waltz Limp
  9. Three's A Crowd
  10. Dance Duet
  11. Back To Earth
  12. Fatha
Music CD 4
  1. Iberia
  2. Unisphere
  3. Shim Wha
  4. World's Fair
  5. Cable Car
  6. Theme From Elementals
  7. Elementals
Music CD 5
  1. Lost Waltz
  2. Softly, William, Softley
  3. Time In
  4. Forty Days
  5. Travellin' Blues
  6. He Done Her Wrong
  7. Lonesome
  8. Cassandra
  9. Rude Old Man
  10. Who Said That?
  11. Watusi Drums

Music reviews of For All Time

Music Review: The Brubeck Collector's Conundrum
Rating: 4 Stars

As a lad of about twenty, I caught up to the Brubeck/time-signature phenomenon by purchasing a 2-LP Columbia reissue entitled "Adventures in Time." I'm sure I beat that album to a pulp on various stereo systems, along with the Don Ellis Orchestra LPs that fascinated me at the time. Purchasing this 5-disc box set was like becoming reacquainted with a lot of old friends. The music (nearly all of it in any case) is first-rate, and I can't add any commentary that hasn't already been said dozens of times by innumerable Brubeck admirers. (The remastering to digital has notably cleared up one very nasty edit--a vestige of the bad old days of razor blades and adhesive mylar tape--that appears in the vinyl versions of "Cassandra." This track was evidently a splicing-together of two separate takes recorded at noticeably different tape speeds, and no one cared to adjust the speeds accordingly!)

Other reviewers have commented unfavorably about the packaging. My own gripe with the packaging doesn't concern materials and such, but rather its concept. Columbia chose to bundle these five CDs together as-is, an approach that is no doubt expedient and cost-effective, and which actually has its benefits (for the owner can appreciate the sequence of tunes, the very fine cover art, etc., exactly as they were originally released). But this bundling (as opposed to thoroughgoing repackaging) is much too rigid. I would have liked to hear more of the Quartet's tunes recorded in concert, particularly the "Take Five" that appears in "Adventures in Time." These live recordings bespeak a heightened improvisational energy, as well as increased confidence with the unusual time signatures, that is sometimes lacking in the studio recordings of the same tunes.

Now here's where the Brubeck Collector's Conundrum comes into play. What are the odds that someone who is entirely new to Brubeck will make this box set their first purchase? Practically nil, yes? It's almost impossible for me to envision someone working up an interest in this set unless they've already invested in "Time Out," and possibly "Time Further Out." By that point they will have already owned one, maybe two albums of the five. For my own part, I confess that I purchased the set only after Amazon had slashed the price from around $45 to $25.97. For my $26 I estimate that I got approximately 2 1/2 very short CDs' worth of music after I discount "Elementals," which still doesn't ring my chimes (sorry, folks...you can recite chapter-and-verse about what a great experiment in orchestral improvisation "Elementals" is, et cetera, but it's not likely I'll ever warm up to it).

Perhaps Amazon has anticipated the conundrum ahead of me, which may explain the substantial discount. In any event, if you must have this set, I recommend that you grab it while the discount is in place. Unless, of course, Columbia decides to repackage all of this material with the now-dormant "Time Signatures" set, in which case we REALLY have a conundrum on our hands...
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Description of For All Time

More than any other improvising artist during the past 45 years,the pianist/composer/bandleader Dave Brubeck (b. 1920) has expanded the rhythmic boundaries of Jazz, while creating a body of work that is notable for its consistent levels of melodic content and harmonic invention. Recorded between 1959 and 1965, this five-disc set captures the Brubeck quartet, featuring the floating alto saxophone of Paul Desmond (composer of the million-selling "Take Five"), at the peak of their powers.

In addition to such Brubeck signatures as "It's a Raggy Waltz," "Blue Rondo a la Turk," "Unsquare Dance" and, of course, "Take Five," For All Time's repertoire also presents an improvisation from one of Dave's liturgical pieces, a variation of the folk song "Frankie and Johnny," and Brubeck's work for quartet and 45-piece orchestra, "Elementals."

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