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Dave Brubeck
24 Classic Original Recordings
Genres: Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (24) - Disc #1
1. You Stepped out of a Dream - Dave Brubeck, Brown, Nacio Herb
2. Lullaby in Rhythm - Dave Brubeck, Goodman, Benny
3. Singing in the Rain - Dave Brubeck, Brown, Nacio Herb
4. I'll Remember April - Dave Brubeck, DePaul, Gene
5. Body and Soul - Dave Brubeck, Eyton, Frank
6. Let's Fall in Love - Dave Brubeck, Arlen, Harold
7. Laura - Dave Brubeck, Mercer, Johnny
8. (Back Home Again In) Indiana - Dave Brubeck, Hanley, James F.
9. Blue Moon - Dave Brubeck, Hart, Lorenz
10. Tea for Two - Dave Brubeck, Caesar, Irving
11. Undecided - Dave Brubeck, Robin, Sydney
12. That Old Black Magic - Dave Brubeck, Arlen, Harold
13. September Song - Dave Brubeck, Anderson, Maxwell
14. Sweet Georgia Brown - Dave Brubeck, Bernie, Ben
15. Spring Is Here - Dave Brubeck, Hart, Lorenz
16. 'S Wonderful - Dave Brubeck, Gershwin, George
17. Perfidia - Dave Brubeck, Dominguez, Alberto
18. Avalon - Dave Brubeck, DeSylva, Buddy
19. I Didn't Know What Time It Was - Dave Brubeck, Hart, Lorenz
20. Always - Dave Brubeck, Berlin, Irving
21. How High the Moon - Dave Brubeck, Hamilton, Nancy
22. Squeeze Me - Dave Brubeck, Waller, Fats
23. Heart and Soul - Dave Brubeck, Carmichael, Hoagy
24. Too Marvelous for Words - Dave Brubeck, Mercer, Johnny

CD Details

All Artists: Dave Brubeck
Title: 24 Classic Original Recordings
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Fantasy
Release Date: 7/9/1990
Album Type: Live
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Style: Cool Jazz
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 025218242622, 025218472616, 025218472647, 029667700528, 025218272629

Synopsis

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The sum total of three 10-inch trio records recorded between 1949 and 1951, this provocative collection finds a restless pianist who is simply fascinated by contrasts in tone, color, and emotion. In many ways, Dave Brubeck is a scientist here, experimenting with polytones, unorthodox harmonies, twisted rhythms, and odd melodic variations that perhaps only made sense to him. Why pound jarringly through a tender ballad like "Laura"? Because it accentuates the utter beauty of its melody. Why begin the buoyant "Indiana" as a fragile poem? Because it accentuates the jaunty playfulness of its melody. Brubeck swings like mad one minute and is stiff as a board the next, not only toying with the listener, but with the time-tested standards that he molds into highly original performances. A young Cal Tjader proves a worthy collaborator, bouncing between drums, bongos, and vibes and not only keeping up, but propelling the music ever forward. --Marc Greilsamer

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CD Reviews

Tjaderized Brubeck

08/11/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This release is the best way to aquire the nearly impossible to find 10-inch records released in the late forties/early fifties. If you are a fan of Brubecks more cookin' works (as opposed to his more ballad oriented stuff), this is the place to start. Cal Tjader's drums and liberal use of bongos and vibes work well against Brubeck's piano. Much different from his later 50s and 60s stuff, and with lower fidelity due to the age of the recordings. Great stuff!!"

A Precious Classic

illiniwak | Oak Ridge, TN | 02/28/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is the only example that I know of from the pre-Oberlin College days. My tape of the old LP [I think it was a 10"] was ruined about 20 years ago. If you treasure your Brubeck collection and already have his solo piano album, this should be next!The sound quality shows the effect of transcribing from vinyl, but the music is golden."

Arnold Schoenberg meets Jazz

Joe Anthony (a.k.a. JAG 1) | Massachusetts, USA | 05/26/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"David Brubeck remains one of the very last of the great jazz masters: a final link to the days of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus. His original Dave Brubeck Quartet (featuring Paul Desmond, Gene Wright and Joe Morello) was classic. But sometime before the famous quartet, was this Dave Brubeck Trio that features bassist Ron Crotty and percussionist Cal Tjader (who later went on to play with George Shearing and then explore the worlds of Latin Jazz and Exotica).

This trio is something rather unique. It's West-Coast jazz, with an influence from Arnold Schoenberg who pioneered atonality (Second School of Vienna) in classical music before the rise of Nazism in Europe and his subsequent resettlement in California where he influenced the likes of jazz musicians such as Cecil Taylor and Dave Brubeck.

Brubeck's trio takes such standards as "I'm in the Mood for Love" and "Laura" and puts them through an atonal filter that retains the integrity of the song and the feeling of jazz. It's innovative and cool.

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