Author: Brubeck, Dave

Format: Best of

Release Date: 07-11-2000

Details: Amazon.ca Dave Brubeck is unlikely ever to rank among the great improvisers or composers of jazz, but throughout his career he has been a tremendous popularizer, managing to present otherwise challenging musical ideas--modernist harmonies, classical structures, and complex time signatures--in forms palatable to a large audience. In the 1950s and '60s, his quartet with alto saxophonist Paul Desmond attained levels of popularity virtually unknown to other modern jazz musicians. It was the kind of success that resists analysis, but it undoubtedly involved the contrast presented by Brubeck and Desmond, the pianist openly touching on the pensive, the boisterous, and the bombastic, the saxophonist a self-effacing master of a coolly detached, liquid lyricism. The contrast is apparent on early collaborative compositions like "Le Souk" and "Audrey" from 1954, when the group was at its most harmonically daring, and it grows even more marked on a later standard like "I Get a Kick Out of You." The group's greatest hits are also here--Desmond's "Take Five" and Brubeck's "Blue Rondo a la Turk"--as well as Brubeck's prettiest songs, "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "Strange Meadow Lark." Louis Armstrong joins Brubeck and the vocal group Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross for "The Real Ambassador," a 1961 novelty song that distinguishes touring jazz musicians from the usual diplomatic corps. --Stuart Broomer Product Description Brubeck, Dave

UPC: 074646144220

EAN: 0074646144220

Languages: English

Binding: audioCD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood