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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: Watusi Drums (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music April 01, 09

As the story goes, recounted by Dave Brubeck in his liner notes for the Quartet's In Europe album, he had writte...

Dave Brubeck: Unsquare Dance (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music January 24, 09

Even at 2:02, "Unsquare Dance" lingers in the listener's memory long after the tune has ceased. As a pop hit, it is f...

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 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: Take Five (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

Columbia Records balked when Brubeck proposed an entire album in odd time signatures. Even Paul Desmond considered it...

Dave Brubeck: Tangerine (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

Between 1952 and 1958, the Brubeck Quartet released 537 albums, of which 402 were recorded live. OK, so it was only 1...

Paul Desmond: Take Ten (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 27, 07

Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond had a deal. Whenever Desmond recorded as leader, to avoid competing with Brubeck's Quar...

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...

Paul Desmond: When Joanna Loved Me (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

Paul Desmond may have possessed the most beautiful alto saxophone tone in jazz since Johnny Hodges starred with Duke ...

Dave Brubeck: Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

Eight maids a-milking aptly describes Santa's Christmas Eve pace when he's on schedule. With all the world's children...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RUDY REINDEER'S FAVORITE JAZZ

First, about the name. The whole "Rudolph" thing started as a joke. To friends and family, I've always been Rudy. The...

Dave Brubeck: Camptown Races (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

The racist dialect of "Camptown Races" (1850) is lampooned in Mel Brooks' s Blazing Saddles (1974), where black railr...

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: 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: 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...

Lateef, Yusef Abdul (William Evans) posted in Encyclopedia March 31, 08

Saxophonist and flutist Yusef Lateef is a prolific iconoclast who doubles on a number of instruments from around the ...

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...

Brooks, Hadda (Hapgood) posted in Encyclopedia January 19, 09

Pianist and singer Hadda Brooks was an approximate contemporary of Julia Lee and Nellie Lutcher, yet, unlike them, he...

Gonzalez, David posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Gonzalez, David, vocalist; b. San Francisco, CA, 30 January 1944. Born to first generation San Franciscans of Mexican...

Marucci, Mat (Mathew Roger Marucci III) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Marucci, Mat [Mathew Roger Marucci III], drums; b. Rome, NY, 2 July 1945. He was born to a family with musical histor...

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