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| | Artist : Dave Brubeck | |
| | Album : 50 Years of Dave Brubeck Live at the Monterey Jazz | |
| | Label : Concord Music Group Source : CD | |
| | Cat. No. : MJFR30680 Size : 80.29 MB | |
| ¦ Genre : Jazz StrDate: 2008-08-05 ¦ |
¦ _ Quality : 154kbps/44.1khz/Joint Stereo RipDate: 2008-08-14 _ ¦
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| | Another release in Concord's series of albums paying tribute to | |
| | the Monterey Jazz Festival (previously: Cal Tjader) is one that | |
| | fits me like a bespoke suit, because it features one of my | |
| | favorites. Dave Brubeck. 50 Years Of Dave Brubeck - Live At The | |
| | Monterey Jazz Festival (1958-2007) is exactly what you'd infer | |
| | from the title, a celebration of Brubeck's many appearances | |
| | through the years. It doesn't get much better than that. | |
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| | Brubeck is in his eighties now and still performing, and his | |
| | appearance at the 2007 festival wowed the crowds just as much as | |
| | the one he made with the original quartet at the 1958 festival. | |
| | In fact, you could probably make a good case for Brubeck being | |
| | the heart and soul of the whole thing, because not only has he | |
| | made numerous appearances through the years, but he was in at the | |
| | beginning ? before it even existed. | |
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| | Brubeck and his legendary quartet - which included alto | |
| | saxophonist Paul Desmond, drummer Joe Morello, and bassist Eugene | |
| | Wright - was the group chosen by the festival's founder, Jimmy | |
| | Lyons, to perform for local bigwigs and educate them about jazz. | |
| | It worked out pretty well for everybody. | |
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| | That edition of the Brubeck quartet is heard here on the first | |
| | three tracks, which includes some familiar pieces. Among them is | |
| | a 1962 performance of "Someday My Prince Will Come," the | |
| | quartet's innovative jazz interpretation of the theme from Snow | |
| | White, and from 1966, "Take Five," a song that had a few years | |
| | earlier become a mainstream hit and brought millions of new fans | |
| | to jazz. It's fascinating to hear and compare the improvisational | |
| | play here with the familiar original. | |
| | | |
| | In subsequent years, Brubeck appeared at the festival with later | |
| | groups he'd formed. One of those included Gerry Mulligan on | |
| | baritone sax, along with Jack Six on bass and Alan Dawson on | |
| | drums, and included here are a couple of pieces from that group's | |
| | 1971 appearance. I especially liked Mulligan's composition, | |
| | "Jumping Bean," which features Latin accents and outstanding | |
| | solos. | |
| | | |
| | Later Brubeck appearances at the festival included one in 1985, | |
| | when his son Chris joined in with some skillful play on the bass, | |
| | and a poignant one in 1998 when Brubeck performed "Goodbye, Old | |
| | Friend," a song he'd written as a tribute to Mulligan, who had | |
| | died in 1996. Just one of the many special moments on this album | |
| | ? highly recommended. | |
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| | Tracklisting: | |
| | | |
| | 01. Two Part Contention (1958) 12:29 | |
| | 02. Someday My Prince Will Come (1962) 5:21 | |
| | 03. Take Five (1966) 5:41 | |
| | 04. Sermon on the Mount (1971) 5:33 | |
| | 05. Jumping Bean (1971) 8:23 | |
| | 06. Tritonis (1985) 7:32 | |
| | 07. Goodbye Old Friend (1998) 2:17 | |
| | 08. I Got Rhythm (2002) 6:59 | |
| | 09. Sleep (2006) 5:39 | |
| | 10. Margie (2007) 10:25 | |
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