The Dave Brubeck Quartet in Europe

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The Dave Brubeck Quartet in Europe
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Live album by Dave Brubeck
Released 1958
Recorded March 5, 1958 in Copenhagen [1]
Genre Jazz
Length28:55
Label Columbia
CS 8128
Dave Brubeck chronology
Newport 1958
(1958) Newport 19581958		The Dave Brubeck Quartet in Europe
(1958)		 Jazz Impressions of Eurasia
(1958) Jazz Impressions of Eurasia1958

The Dave Brubeck Quartet in Europe is a live album by pianist Dave Brubeck and his quartet recorded in 1958 in Copenhagen, Denmark. [2] [3] The cartoon on the cover of the album of Brubeck and his quartet was drawn by Arnold Roth. [1]

Dave Brubeck American jazz pianist and composer

David Warren Brubeck was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz. He wrote a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranged from refined to bombastic, reflecting both his mother's attempts at classical training and his own improvisational skills. His music is known for employing unusual time signatures as well as superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, and tonalities.

Arnold Roth cartoonist

Arnold Roth is an American cartoonist and illustrator for advertisements, album covers, books, magazines, and newspapers. Novelist John Updike wrote, "All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so."

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Ken Dryden reviewed the album for Allmusic and wrote that "...the quartet is in top form, while Brubeck is hardly the heavy-handed pianist that many early critics claimed him to be on these rewarding performances" Dryden praised Paul Desmond's "lyricism and witty quotes especially of note in the extended treatment of the standard "Tangerine"". [3]

Paul Desmond American jazz musician

Paul Desmond was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer, best known for his work with the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for composing that group's biggest hit, "Take Five". He was one of the most popular musicians to come out of the cool jazz scene.

Track listing

  1. "Wonderful Copenhagen" (Frank Loesser)
  2. "My One Bad Habit" (Dave Brubeck, Iola Brubeck)
  3. "Tangerine" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger)
  4. "The Wright Groove" (Eugene Wright)
  5. "Like Someone in Love" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen)
  6. "Watusi Drums" (D. Brubeck)

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Alto saxophone type of saxophone

The alto saxophone, also referred to as the alto sax, is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, and patented in 1846. It is pitched in E♭, and is smaller than the tenor, but larger than the soprano. The alto sax is the most common saxophone and is commonly used in concert bands, chamber music, solo repertoire, military bands, marching bands, and jazz. The fingerings of the different saxophones are all the same so a saxophone player can play any type of saxophone.

Eugene Wright American jazz musician

Eugene Joseph Wright, nicknamed The Senator, is an American jazz bassist, best known for his work as a member of The Dave Brubeck Quartet, in particular on the group's most famous album, Time Out (1959), with pianist Brubeck, drummer Joe Morello and alto saxophonist Paul Desmond.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Dave Brubeck - The Dave Brubeck Quartet in Europe at Discogs". discogs.com. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  2. ↑ "Dave Brubeck Jazz - The Dave Brubeck Quartet in Europe". davebrubeckjazz.com. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 The Dave Brubeck Quartet in Europe at AllMusic
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