Dave Brubeck, Jazz Profiles

Label: Sony Music Entertainment - BMG
Year: 2007
Released on LP: No
Released on CD: Yes

Tracks

1. Take Five
2. Blue Rondo a la Turk
3. Trolley Song
4. The Duke
5. Three to Get Ready
6. In Your Own Sweet Way
7. It's a Raggy Waltz
8. Bossa Nova USA
9. Pick Up Sticks
10. Unsquare Dance
11. Some Day My Prince Will Come

Notes

Performers

Dave Brubeck
Paul Desmond
Joe Morello
Eugene Wright
Norman Bates
Carmen McRae

Reviews

All Music Guide - Review – copyright

This 11-track collection of Dave Brubeck's tunes from his days on the Columbia label is about as solid top-to-bottom as one could ask for. There's absolutely no filler, no second-rate material, and contains all of -- all of -- the finest work Brubeck did in the late '50s and early '60s. You expect, and get "Take Five," "Blue Rondo a la Turk," "Three to Get Ready," "It's a Raggy Waltz," and "Unsquare Dance," the tunes with witty time signatures that identified Brubeck as an accessible innovator. Also included: "In Your Own Sweet Way," which by now has eclipsed "Take Five" as the most covered standard in Brubeck's repertoire. As definitive as any single-CD set you might find, this one cannot come more highly recommended, especially for those discovering this legendary pianist/composer for the first time.

Michael G. Nastos

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