Dave Quartet Brubeck - Jazz Impressions of the USA
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Artist: Dave Quartet BrubeckEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2009-02-17
Music Label: Gambit Spain
Soundtracks:
- Ode to a Cowboy
- Summer Song
- Yonder for Two
- History of a Boy Scout
- Plain Song
- Curtain Time
- Sounds of the Loop
- Home at Last
- Two Sleepy People
- Pilgrim's Progress
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Music Review: Impressions of an Impressionist
Rating: 4 Stars
When we hear about musical impressionists, we may think about Ravel and Debussy, whose compositions always accompany documentaries about the impressionist painters, Monet, Renoir, et al. Jazz, too, has its impressionists. Duke Ellington had many a suite of compostions based on his impressions of lands of his many journies, the Far East, Latin America, Africa. Dave Brubeck likewise developed jazz sketches from his own travels to Europe, India, and Japan. He has an entire album dedicated to New York City. Here are recordings from autumn 1956 and winter 1957 whose group title suggests impressions of the United States at large. It is had hardly that formal. They are rather developed compositional sketches of a professional jazz musician while traveling across the nation from one gig to another. That said, as American composers and jazz artists, the national character emerges in their works and performances.
While "Summer Song" is a sweet and gentle popular track, "History of a Boy Scout" is wide-ranging, witty, up-tempo, and clever. "Plain Song" is perhaps the most evocative, being impressions of the Great Plains, its stretches of lonely fields, with a mechanical framework of a bus droning along the long road. "Curtain Time" presages the New York album of 1964 with its hint of a Broadway theatre orchestra. Chicago's Loop is a vehicle for drummer Joe Morello, and the urban bustle and din is conveyed with the elevated train rumbling along its tracks. "Home at Last" is indeed home, as Brubeck recorded this quiet, mellow solo at his home sanctuary. The only non-quartet composition follows: Carmichael & Loesser's piece, "Two Sleepy People." The final bonus tracks is a live Ontario concert excerpt, included for its obvious title: "Pilgrim's Progress." It is a very fine and strong performance, a dandy close. This album certainly belongs in the Brubeck fan's collection. It demonstrates the continuing creative Brubeck-Desmond jazz sound of the mid 1950s. And it never ceases to please.
Description of Jazz Impressions of the USA
This release presents the complete long unavailable original studio album Jazz Impressions of U.S.A. (1957) by the Dave Brubeck Quartet for the first time ever on CD. This would be the first album in a series of mood LPs all titled Jazz Impressions which were inspired by different cultures and places. It would be followed by Jazz Impressions of Eurasia (1958); Jazz Impressions of Japan (1964) and Jazz Impressions of New York (1964). All of the compositions from Jazz Impressions of U.S.A. were new works by Dave Brubeck. As a bonus to this rarely heard gem, the label has added two more Brubeck tracks which have never appeared before on CD (both were issued only on separate long out of print LP compilations): 'Two Sleepy People' and 'Pilgrim's Progress'. Gambit. 2009.Jazz CDs
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