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CD 4

CD 2

CD 3

CD 4

Label: Columbia Legacy
Year: 1992
Released on LP: No
Released on CD: Yes

Tracks

CD 1

1.Curtain Music (Closing Theme)
2.(Back Home Again In) Indiana
3.Body and Soul
4.Undecided
5.The Way You Look Tonight
6.Look for the Silver Lining
7.Over the Rainbow
8.Perdido
9.Le Souk
10.Stompin' for Mili
11.The Duke
12.Two-Part Contention
13.In Your Own Sweet Way
14.History of a Boy Scout (We Crossed the Rhine)
15.Someday My Prince Will Come

CD 2

1.Tangerine
2.Jump for Joy
3.The Golden Horn
4.Marble Arch
5.Georgia on My Mind
6.Three to Get Ready
7.Blue Rondo a la Turk
8.Strange Meadowlark
9.Take Five
10.Darktown Strutters' Ball
11.Offshoot
12.There'll Be Some Changes Made

CD 3

1.Allegro Blues
2.Somewhere
3.Weep No More
4.Charles Matthew Hallelujah
5.Unsquare Dance
6.Why Phillis
7.Kathy's Waltz
8.Travelin' Blues
9.Summer Song
10.The Real Ambassadors
11.Non-Sectarian Blues
12.Bossa Nova U.S.A.
13.It's a Raggy Waltz
14.The World's Fair
15.Fujiyama
16.Upstage Rumba
17.Little Man with a Candy Cigar
18.My Favorite Things
19.Lost Waltz


CD 4

1.I Get a Kick out of You
2.Koto Song
3.La Paloma Azul (The Blue Dove)
4.Estrellita (Little Star)
5.Forty Days
6.Sapito
7.Recuerdo
8.St. Louis Blues
9.Mr. Broadway
10.Caravan

Notes

This major Columbia release, its first ever “box set” of Dave’s work is the most definitive compilation ever of Dave Brubeck’s music to year of publication, 1992.

Dave personally selected each track and prepared a comment on its origin for each one.

The box set includes a magnificent 80 page booklet with many never seen before photographs and the best biography ever written of Dave by Doug Ramsey. The booklet alone is worth the price of the release.

This box set comes with the highest recommendation not alone for those wishing to explore the music of Dave Brubeck but for existing fans as well.

The number of performers credited, 44, gives some insight into this major body of work spanning five decades.

Performers :
Dave Brubeck
Salvatore Agueros
Louis Armstrong
Danny Barcelona
Herb Barman
Bob Bates
Norman Bates
Joe Benjamin
Jerry Bergonzi
Chris Brubeck
Dan Brubeck
Darius Brubeck
Dave Brubeck
Howard Brubeck
Bob Collins
Dick Collins
Chamin Correa
Ron Crotty
Lloyd Davis
Alan Dawson
Paul Desmond
Joe Dodge
Jon Hendricks
Randy Jones
Billy Kyle
Dave Lambert
Teo Macero
Carmen McRae
Butch Miles
Bobby Militello
Charles Mingus
Joe Morello
Gerry Mulligan
Dave Powell
Perry Robinson
Annie Ross
Jimmy Rushing
Wyatt Ruther
Jack Six
Bill Smith
Cal Tjader
Dave VanKriedt
Jack Weeks
Eugene Wright
Trummy Young

Reviews

All Music Guide - Review – copyright

This four-CD boxed set does a near-perfect job of summing up Dave Brubeck's extensive recorded legacy. Drawing its recordings from not only Columbia but Fantasy, Atlantic and Music Masters, the attractive package also includes an extensive booklet written by Doug Ramsey that can serve as a mini-biography. The focus is naturally on the Brubeck Quartet with altoist Paul Desmond but there is also music from before and after their association, even including one otherwise unissued performance, a remarkable polytonal polyrhythmic version of "Tritonis." Although completists will prefer to acquire Dave Brubeck's individual releases, this set is perfect for those just beginning to explore the magic of his music.

Scott Yanow
Copyright Rovi Corporation


Editorial Reviews - Amazon.com

With material from 1946 to 1991, this handsome box set reveals the enormous breadth of Brubeck's interests, accomplishments, and collaborations. There are tracks, for example, with Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Rushing, Gerry Mulligan, and Carmen McRae. There's even a duo with Charles Mingus. Also here is the full range of Brubeck's studied structures, involved harmonies, and elements unusual to jazz, including expansive time signatures and the use of fugue form and 12-tone theory. Included, of course, are such signature hits as "Blue Rondo a la Turk" and "Take Five." Brubeck came up playing hillbilly, swing, and Dixieland, and at college studied modern composition. All of that--and little constraint--informed his complex, idiosyncratic style. The package includes an 80-page booklet with his biography, rare photographs, and descriptions of every track.

Peter Monaghan