Jazz at the College of the Pacific

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Jazz at the College of the Pacific
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Live album by
ReleasedBetween January and September 1954 [1]
RecordedDecember 14, 1953
College of the Pacific, Stockton
Genre Jazz
Length40:23
Label Fantasy
F 3223
Professional ratings
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AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]

Jazz at the College of the Pacific is a live album by Dave Brubeck Quartet. [3] It was recorded and released in December 1953 on Fantasy Records as F 3223. The cover was designed by Ed Colker and drawn by Arnold Roth. Critic Nat Hentoff wrote in Down Beat magazine that the album "ranks with the Oberlin and Storyville sets as the best of Brubeck on record". [6]

Contents

Fantasy released seven additional performances from this concert in 2002 on the album Jazz at the College of the Pacific, Vol. 2.

Track listing

  1. "All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) 9:12
  2. "Laura" (David Raksin, Johnny Mercer) 3:12
  3. "Lullaby in Rhythm" (Walter Hirsch, Benny Goodman) 7:25
  4. "I'll Never Smile Again" (Ruth Lowe) 5:28
  5. "I Remember You" (Victor Schertzinger, Johnny Mercer) 9:12
  6. "For All We Know" (J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis) 5:52

Personnel

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References

  1. Billboard Nov 13, 1954
  2. AllMusic review
  3. 1 2 Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 2. MUZE. p. 19.
  4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 188. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 91–92.
  6. CD back cover excerpt