Jazz at Oberlin

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Jazz at Oberlin
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Live album by
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Released1953
RecordedMarch 2, 1953
Oberlin College, Oberlin
Genre Jazz
Length37:47
Label Fantasy
F 3245 (album) OJCCD-046-2 (CD)
Dave Brubeck Quartet chronology
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
(1952)		Jazz at Oberlin
(1953)		 Jazz at the College of the Pacific
(1953)
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Jazz at Oberlin is a live album by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. It was recorded in the Finney Chapel at Oberlin College in March 1953, and released on Fantasy Records as F 3245. The Fantasy Records album back cover states that drummer Lloyd Davis had a 103-degree fever during the performance.

Contents

Critic Nat Hentoff wrote in Down Beat magazine that the album ranks with the College of the Pacific and Storyville sets "as the best of Brubeck on record", [3] and jazz critic Gary Giddins has written that it would "make many short lists of the decade's outstanding albums". [4]

The concert is credited with making jazz a legitimate field of musical study at Oberlin, and furthermore initiating it as a subject of serious intellectual attention; Wendell Logan, the chair of Oberlin's Jazz Studies Department, described it as "the watershed event that signaled the change of performance space for jazz from the nightclub to the concert hall". [4]

In addition, it was one of the early works in the cool jazz stream of jazz; The Guardian's John Fordham wrote that it "indicated new directions for jazz that didn't slavishly mirror bebop, and even hinted at free-jazz piano techniques still years away from realisation"; he further observed that it "marked Brubeck's eager adoption by America's (predominantly white) youth - a welcome that soon extended around the world ... for a rhythmically intricate instrumental jazz". [5]

Track listing

  1. "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" (Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey, Harry Link) 6:25
  2. "Perdido" (Juan Tizol, Hans Lengsfelder, Ervin Drake) 8:03
  3. "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) 6:32
  4. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) 7:43
  5. "How High the Moon" (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis) 9:04

(Times are as given on the CD; the album numbers differ slightly.)

The 10" LP and reel-to-reel version of the album did not include "How high the moon" and reordered the remaining tracks in a different way. Also, it includes the full version of "The Way You Look Tonight" with Paul Demond's full solo.

Side A

  1. "Perdido" (Juan Tizol, Hans Lengsfelder, Ervin Drake)
  2. "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish)

Side B

  1. "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" (Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey, Harry Link)
  2. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields)


Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 188. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. ↑ 'College of the Pacific' CD back cover excerpt
  4. 1 2 "Legendary Brubeck Album Jazz at Oberlin was Recorded Fifty Years Ago—March 2, 1953". 2003-03-02. Archived from the original on 2017-02-28. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  5. ↑ Fordham, John (2010-01-11). "50 great moments in jazz: Dave Brubeck's Jazz at Oberlin". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
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