thanks to Vinne!
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
RE-UPs - 2009
I will start to re-up all old links that have died, because I see this blog still get's alot of attention!
The first re-up:
Anything Goes: The Dave Brubeck Quartet Plays Cole Porter (1965)
to be found at the same place:
http://davebrubeck.blogspot.com/2007/03/1965-anything-goes-music-of-cole-porter.html
http://davebrubeck.blogspot.com/2007/03/1965-anything-goes-music-of-cole-porter.html
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Contributions
If anyone has albums that aren't posted yet: contributions are always welcome of course.
-mr. wiggles
-mr. wiggles
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
2007 - "Take Five" on The Sopranos
Episode 78 of HBO television series The Sopranos features "Take Five" by The Dave Brubeck Quartet. More info ont his great show here http://hbo.com/sopranos. Take Five [flac] - http://sharebee.com/d0393a9e
Monday, April 9, 2007
Saturday, April 7, 2007
1963 - Brubeck In Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Live)
LP rip @320 http://lix.in/434817 or http://lix.in/1a9e8bDave Brubeck Quartet in my country. A very rare album. Except for the final track, all the tunes are from The Real Ambassadors (to be found here: http://davebrubeck.blogspot.com/2007/02/320-httpsharebee.html).
Friday, April 6, 2007
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
1960 - Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein
LP rip @320 http://lix.in/d2026bTracks 1-4 are "Dialogues For Jazz Combo And Orchestra" composed by Howard Brubeck, played by The New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein with the Dave Brubeck Quartet.
Tracks 5-9 are tunes from Broadway shows composed by Leonard Bernstein.
thx to Mel of course
Friday, March 30, 2007
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Friday, March 23, 2007
1959 - The Riddle (with Bill Smith)
LP rip @128 http://sharebee.com/5c149e23Maybe there'll be a quality-upgrade in the future, maybe not.
1958 - Newport Jazz Festival 1958 (Live)
@320 http://lix.in/01f515 or http://lix.in/8a039bDave Brubeck Quartet plays Duke Ellington. Tracklist in "Comments".
thx to Mel for the LP rips and other great contributions.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Saturday, March 17, 2007
1992 - Time Signatures: A Career Retrospective [4CD's]
@VBR
Disc 1 http://sharebee.com/006a2cdc
Disc 2 http://lix.in/7f3e5a
Disc 3 http://lix.in/2c6ea2
Disc 4 http://lix.in/ccabc9
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Friday, March 9, 2007
Saturday, March 3, 2007
Friday, March 2, 2007
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
New albums
As you can see every "new" album will be posted on top, so there's no more chronological order. Expect more albums to come.
Tracklist will be placed under "Comments".
Tracklist will be placed under "Comments".
Monday, February 19, 2007
Saturday, February 17, 2007
1963 - Live At Carnegie Hall
@224VBR
Part 1 http://sharebee.com/0df311c5
Part 2 http://sharebee.com/ed970abc
Disc 2, track 5 http://lix.in/d7461d
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thx to Diagnostic from Boppin Around
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck @ AllMusicGuide
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Dave Brubeck has long served as proof that creative jazz and popular success can go together. Although critics who had championed him when he was unknown seemed to scorn him when the Dave Brubeck Quartet became a surprise success, in reality Brubeck never watered down or altered his music in order to gain a wide audience. Creative booking (being one of the first groups to play regularly on college campuses) and a bit of luck resulted in great popularity, and Dave Brubeck remains one of the few household names in jazz.
From nearly the start, Brubeck enjoyed utilizing poly-rhythms and poly-tonality (playing in two keys at once). He had classical training from his mother, but fooled her for a long period by memorizing his lessons and not learning to read music. He studied music at the College of the Pacific during 1938-1942. Brubeck led a service band in General Patton's Army during World War II and then, in 1946, he started studying at Mills College with the classical composer Darius Milhaud, who encouraged his students to play jazz. During 1946-1949, Brubeck led a group mostly consisting of fellow classmates, and they recorded as the Dave Brubeck Octet; their music (released on Fantasy in 1951) still sounds advanced today, with complex time signatures and some poly-tonality. The octet was too radical to get much work, so Brubeck formed a trio with drummer Cal Tjader (who doubled on vibes) and bassist Ron Crotty. The trio's Fantasy recordings of 1949-1951 were quite popular in the Bay Area, but the group came to an end when Brubeck hurt his back during a serious swimming accident and was put out of action for months.
Upon his return in 1951, Brubeck was persuaded by altoist Paul Desmond to make the group a quartet. Within two years, the band had become surprisingly popular. Desmond's cool-toned alto and quick wit fit in well with Brubeck's often heavy chording and experimental playing; both Brubeck and Desmond had original sounds and styles that owed little to their predecessors. Joe Dodge was the band's early drummer but, after he tired of the road, the virtuosic Joe Morello took his place in 1956; while the revolving bass chair finally settled on Eugene Wright in 1958. By then, Brubeck had followed his popular series of Fantasy recordings with some big sellers on Columbia, and had appeared on the cover of Time (1954). The huge success of Paul Desmond's "Take Five" (1960) was followed by many songs played in "odd" time signatures such as 7/4 and 9/8; the high-quality soloing of the musicians kept these experiments from sounding like gimmicks. Dave and Iola Brubeck (his wife and lyricist) put together an anti-racism show featuring Louis Armstrong (The Real Ambassadors) which was recorded, but its only public appearance was at the Monterey Jazz Festival in the early '60s.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet constantly traveled around the world until its breakup in 1967. After some time off, during which he wrote religious works, Brubeck came back the following year with a new quartet featuring Gerry Mulligan, although he would have several reunions with Desmond before the altoist's death in 1977. Brubeck joined with his sons Darius (keyboards), Chris (electric bass and bass trombone), and Danny (drums) in Two Generations of Brubeck in the 1970s. In the early '80s, tenor saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi was in the Brubeck Quartet, and beginning in the mid-'80s, clarinetist Bill Smith (who was in the original octet) alternated with altoist Bobby Militello.
There is no shortage of Dave Brubeck records currently available, practically everything he cut for Fantasy, Columbia, Concord, and Telarc are easy to locate. Brubeck, whose compositions "In Your Own Sweet Way," "The Duke," and "Blue Rondo a la Turk" have become standards, remained very busy (despite some bouts of bad health) into the 2000s.
Thursday, February 8, 2007
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