The Complete Jazz At The College Of The Pacific

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Label: Essential Jazz Classics
Year: 1953
Released on LP: No
Released on CD: Yes

Tracks

Bonus tracks never released previously.

Somebody Loves Me
Take the “A” Train
In Your Own Sweet Way

Notes

This release contains the complete concert, recorded by the Dave Brubeck Quartet at the College of the Pacific on December 14, 1953, presented for the first time ever on a single set.

Several rare radio broadcasts by the quartet from the same period captured live at the Blue Note in Chicago, and at Basin Street in New York, have been added as a bonus.

They include three tracks that were never previously released on any format as follows.

Somebody Loves Me

Live at the Blue Note, Chicago, March 18, 1953.

Dave Brubeck, piano
Paul Desmond, alto sax
Lloyd Davis, drums
Ron Crotty, bass

Note for collectors: some other tracks from a performance earlier in March 1953 were issued on the Jazz Band label as "Live at the Blue Note, Chicago, March 1953".

Take the “A” Train

Live at Basin Street, New York, October 1, 1954

This date is shortly before the Quartet entered the CBS studios to record "Brubeck Time".

Dave Brubeck, piano
Paul Desmond, alto sax
Joe Dodge, drums
Bob Bates, bass

In Your Own Sweet Way

Live at Basin Street, New York, August 28,1954

Dave Brubeck, piano
Paul Desmond, alto sax
Joe Dodge, drums
Bob Bates, bass


The tracks on this CD other than above were released previously as follows:

Tracks 1-6, CD 1 - Jazz Goes To College - Fantasy, 1953

Tracks 7-10, CD 1 and tracks 1-4, CD 2 - Jazz Goes To College - Vol 2 - Fantasy - 1953 ( released first time in 2002)

Tracks 5 -13 were released on the Jazz Band label as "Live at the Blue Note, Chicago, March 1953".