Jazz: Red Hot and Cool

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Jazz: Red Hot and Cool
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Released1955 (Vinyl album)
2001 (CD reissue)
RecordedOctober 12, 1954
July 23, 1955
August 9, 1955
Basin Street East, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length46:03(1955)
57:12 (2001)
Label Columbia
CL 699 (1955)
CK 61468 (2001)
Producer George Avakian
The Dave Brubeck Quartet chronology
Brubeck Time
(1955)
Jazz: Red Hot and Cool
(1955)
Brubeck Plays Brubeck
(1956)
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Jazz: Red Hot and Cool is a jazz live album by The Dave Brubeck Quartet. It was recorded during one 1954 and two 1955 performances at the Basin Street East club in New York City. [2] Released originally in 1955, this album was remastered and reissued in 2001, while adding two tracks that were not included in the original album. [3]

Contents

This album presents the pre-classic Quartet with Bob Bates on bass and Joe Dodge on drums backing pianist Dave Brubeck and alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, [2] before the bassist Eugene Wright and drummer Joe Morello joined the most experimental Brubeck Quartet of the sixties.

As a result, on the strength of the complex chords of Brubeck and the remarkably cool tone of Desmond, relaxing and calming, Bates and Dodge focus on giving a swinging, but solid and quiet accompaniment to the quartet, without disrupting the discursive flow of ideas between the pianist and the altoist.

Repertoire

This Columbia Records release, recorded in the intimate set of a night club, is notable for introducing Brubeck's composition The Duke, a tribute to the magisterial Duke Ellington which was destined to become a jazz standard in the years to come, due to its cerebral and intricate harmonic structure. [4]

In addition, other highlights came from a book of standards that includes popular tunes composed by Irving Caesar, Mort Dixon, James F. Hanley, Lorenz Hart, Ballard MacDonald, Richard Rodgers, Vincent Youmans, Allie Wrubel, and the brothers Ira and George Gershwin. [2] The two tracks that were included in the reissue are a traditional piece, composed by Vernon Duke, John La Touche and Ted Fetter, and another original created by Brubeck. [3]

Cover art

The cover photograph used for this record was taken by Richard Avedon [5] [6] at hungry i nightclub in San Francisco [7] and was done in partnership with the Helena Rubinstein cosmetics company. It took its title from a new shade of lipstick Rubinstein introduced in the late 1954. According to the liner notes by Brubeck’s longtime producer George Avakian, [2] while the cosmetics company launched an advertising campaign in major fashion magazines in different full-page advertisements, the ladies who bought the lipstick also got a copy of Jazz Combo Tool; a small Columbia six inch, red-orange vinyl record in 78 rpm speed which included excerpts from Eddie Condon and Turk Murphy on its Jazz Combo Hot side, and Pete Rugolo and Brubeck on its Jazz Combo Cool side. [7] In the cover photo, model and actress Suzy Parker leans on a piano at which Dave Brubeck is seated. [6]

Track list

A1  "Lover" (Hart/Rodgers) 5:08
A2  "Little Girl Blue" (Hart/Rodgers) 10:40
A3  "Fare Thee Well, Annabelle" (Wrubel/Dixon) 7:23
B1  "Sometimes I'm Happy" (Caesar/Youmans) 5:23
B2  "The Duke" (Brubeck) 2:46
B3  "Indiana" (B. MacDonald/Hanley) 5:55
B4  "Love Walked In" (I. & G. Gershwin) 8:47

"Taking a Chance on Love" (Duke/La Touche/Fetter) 4:12 *
"Closing Time Blues" (Brubeck) 6:57 *

 * Included only in the 2001 reissue.

Personnel

Sources

  1. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 189. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  2. 1 2 3 4 The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Jazz: Red Hot And Cool (1955), Vinyl, LP Album. Discogs.com. Retrieved on July 31, 2016.
  3. 1 2 The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Jazz: Red Hot And Cool (2001), Reissue, CD Album. Discogs.com. Retrieved on July 31, 2016.
  4. Dave Brubeck: The Duke – Melody lines, Lyrics and Chords. Sheet Music Direct. Retrieved on July 31, 2016.
  5. 1955 Helena Rubinstein ad for Jazz Lipstick photographed by Richard Avedon. Pinterest.com. Retrieved on August 1, 2016.
  6. 1 2 Ramsey, Doug (2005). Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond. Seattle: Parkside Publications. p. 183. ISBN   978-0-9820774-1-2.
  7. 1 2 Helena Rubinstein and Columbia Records. Dave Brubeck website. Retrieved on July 31, 2016.

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