Dave Brubeck - 1954-1962 The Essential Works

Masters of Jazz

£20.14

Format: 2LP
Catalogue No.: MOJ113
Barcode: 3760300311738
Release Date: 13th November 2020
Genre: Jazz

TRACKLISTING:
A1. Blue Rondo A La Turk
A2. Strange Meadow Lark
A3. Take Five
B1. Three To Get Ready
B2. Far More Blue
B3. Unsquare Dance
B4. Countdown
B5. Eleven Four
C1. Audrey
C2. Brother, Can You Square A Dime
C3. Ode To A Cowboy
C4. Nomad
D1. When It S Sleepy Time Down South
D2. Calcuta Blues - Part 1
D3. Maria
D4. Back To Earth
D5. Bossa Nova USA

LP FORMAT DETAILS: Standard weight black double vinyl.

Take Five is probably one of the jazz titles that is best-known to a mass audience. It was composed by Paul Desmond and it appeared on the album Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet.

Pianist Brubeck had studied veterinary medicine before turning to music, and in 1949 he formed an octet, and then in 1951 his famous quartet with Paul Desmond playing saxophone. He signed with Columbia in 1954 and built up an excellent reputation, but in 1959 he became famous around the globe thanks to two titles, Take Five and Blue Rondo à la Turk.

In France, the singer Claude Nougaro made the quartet’s work popular when he wrote the French lyrics for versions of Three to get ready (adapted as Le jazz et la Java) and Blue Rondo a la Turk (with the title A bout de souffle). Dave Brubeck was “quiet man”, far from the legends and excess often linked with jazz: he would spend six decades in a world where life, and jazz, was “cool.”