Search results for "Dave Brubeck"

Dave Brubeck: Here Lies Love (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 26, 09

"Dave Brubeck? Oh, he can't swing, just clobbers those keys; weird galumphing rhythms and oddball time stuff. Without...

Dave Brubeck: On the Alamo (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 02, 09

The classic Dave Brubeck Quartet didn't actually come together until 1957. Before that, Dave and Paul Desmond enjoyed...

Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond: You Go to My Head (1952) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 01, 07

    Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond at Birdland, photo by Marcel Fleiss This is the quintessential cool j...

Dave Brubeck (with Paul Desmond): Blue Moon (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music June 24, 08

At the start of this 1953 track, Brubeck actually plays "Blue Moon" straight, sticking to the original chords and not...

Dave Brubeck: Tonight (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 11, 09

The final word "and" of this album's original title indicates what's going on: the Brubeck Quartet performs only the ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WEST SIDE STORY

Scads of Broadway show tunes have become jazz standards, but probably no single musical proved more popular with...

Dave Brubeck: Over the Rainbow (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 01, 07

Twenty years after this performance was recorded at Boston's Storyville nightclub, a host of musicians (most of the...

Dave Brubeck: Audrey (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond at Birdland, photo by Marcel Fleiss At the 26th Annual Academy Awards in March 195...

Dave Brubeck: Someday My Prince Will Come (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music December 03, 07

This was a turbulent period for the Dave Brubeck Quartet. The ensemble was still adapting to its new label (Columbia...

Dave Brubeck and Jimmy Rushing: There'll Be Some Changes Made (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 10, 08

This performance erupts with joy right from the first bars of the rhythm section's introduction. Rushing's entrance s...

Dave Brubeck: Jump for Joy (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music April 18, 08

As part of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival's salute to Ellington, the Dave Brubeck Quartet presented six tunes associa...

Dave Brubeck Octet: Curtain Music (Closing Theme) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 12, 09

This signature theme from the Dave Brubeck Octet—a short snippet from 1946—predates the Miles Davis Birth of the Cool...

Dave Brubeck: Georgia On My Mind (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 08, 09

Recorded about a year before Ray Charles changed everyone's approach to the song, Dave Brubeck's recording of "Georgi...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HOAGY CARMICHAEL

Hoagy Carmichael was born in Bloomington, Indiana on November 22, 1899. His given name, Hoagland, derived fr...

Dave Brubeck: The Golden Horn (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music March 02, 09

I lived in Turkey in the mid-'50s, and that's where – as a young teen – I first heard the Dave Brubeck Quartet (some ...

Dave Brubeck: Blue Rondo à la Turk (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Using Mozart's "Rondo Alla Turca" as a reference point, Brubeck adapts the 9/8 time signature that intrigued him duri...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ EXOTICA

Exotica is armchair tourism. We experience foreign strangeness without the hassles of leaving home. No passports, imm...

Dave Brubeck: Ode to a Cowboy (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 24, 09

The first track on the first Dave Brubeck Jazz Impressions album (released in early 1957) cheerfully proclaimed what ...

Dave Brubeck: Southern Scene (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 02, 09

As well as roaming the world, the Dave Brubeck Quartet rollicked and rolled across America; and some "regional" album...

Dave Brubeck: Koto Song (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music March 10, 09

Already popular out West, Dave Brubeck headed East – first to Oberlin, then NYC, and then Eastern Europe, the Middle ...

Dave Brubeck: Thank You (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 02, 09

Outlasting Satch and Duke and Diz, even Oscar Peterson—America's grand ambassadors of jazz—peripatetic pianist Dave B...

Dave Brubeck: Thank You (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music December 01, 07

A general rule among jazz pianists is that they give up the keyboard long before their age matches the number of keys...

Dave Brubeck: Maori Blues (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 02, 09

Dave Brubeck has said that Darius Milhaud (his mentor at Mills College in the late '40s) "told me to travel the world...

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