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Brubeck’s Best | Alto ALN1933

Brubeck’s Best

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Label: Alto

Cat No: ALN1933

Barcode: 5055354419331

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Jazz

Release Date: 3rd June 2013

Contents

Artists

Dave Brubeck Quartet

Artists

Dave Brubeck Quartet

About

Contents:
1. Take Five (1959)
2. Blue Rondo à La Turk (1959)
3. Unsquare Dance (1962)
4. It’s a Raggy Waltz (1962)
5. In your own Sweet Way (1955)
6. Three to Get Ready (1959)
7. Pick up Sticks (1959)
8. Blue Shadows in the Street (1962)
9. Two-Part Contention (1956)
10. The Waltz (1956)
11. Everybody’s Jumpin’ (1959)
12. The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (1962)
13. I Feel Pretty (Bernstein/Sondheim) (1962)
14. Camptown Races (1962)
15. Take The ‘A’ Train (Strayhorn) (1959)

During the 50s, the Dave Brubeck Quartet became one of America’s most successful groups, playing ‘West Coast Cool Jazz’. Their second album Jazz Goes to College sold over 100,000 and Brubeck became the first jazz musician to feature on the cover of Time magazine, Before then, jazz had rarely engaged the white middle-class students and ‘pop’ audiences of the late 1950’s that surfed the Elvis phenomenon and indicated the arrival of ‘teenagers’ with money! 

By the end of the decade, the most popular and influential Brubeck quartet was born. Familiar 4/4 straight-ahead jazz was augmented by complex tempos like 9/8 (Blue Rondo à la Turk) and even 11/4, though the improvising sections of Brubeck’s compositions frequently loosened into regular swing, (which cleverly balanced and therefore enhanced their appeal).” - MusicalMerit

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