Fri 18 Nov 2016
Music I’m Listening To: DAVE BRUBECK “Anything Goes!” [Complete LP].
Posted by Steve under Music I'm Listening To[5] Comments
Subtitled: “The Dave Brubeck Quartet Plays Cole Porter.” I thought I knew all of Brubeck’s early LP’s, but I just came across this one for the first time. It’s available on CD only as a Japanese import.
November 18th, 2016 at 9:15 am
To fulfill their contract with CBS, as the Wright/Morello/Desmond quartet, they recorded a number of quick studio and not a few concert albums for release in the mid ’60s…MY FAVORITE THINGS (all Rodgers songs) another, and of course everyone was reminded of the Coltrane album. I think this one is one of the few I didn’t pick up on vinyl, but I might well have, should Go Look.
November 18th, 2016 at 9:30 am
It’s part of the 19 cd Columbia Studio Collection. I bought the Columbia set for the few albums I was having trouble finding. Not cheap but lots of great music.
November 18th, 2016 at 2:29 pm
Of course, when you hear the name of Dave Brubeck you think of TAKE FIVE one of the most famous and popular jazz song ever done. It always reminds me how unfair fame is as few remember Paul Desmond who composed it while he was the sax player with Dave Brubeck quartet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8ToDoj-pWM
November 18th, 2016 at 2:44 pm
Written by Paul Desmond, but honed to perfection by the full quartet. You’re quite right, though. Desmond doesn’t get much individual credit for it, even from diehard jazz fans.
But says Wikipedia:
“Desmond, upon his death in 1977, left the performance royalties for his compositions, including ‘Take Five,’ to the American Red Cross, which has since received combined royalties of approximately $100,000 a year.”
“Take Five,” I am sure, accounts for a goodly portion of that.
November 18th, 2016 at 3:11 pm
Yes, basically “Take Five” was a “head” arrangement. Drummer Joe Morello could’ve been credited with it. Sadder to me that after so many fine compositions and performances, that that quartet is so often remembered only for “Take Five”…though “Unsquare Dance” (another showcase for Morello) is kind of the stealth DBQ recording. Emma Thompson used it as the theme of her sketch comedy/dance series THOMPSON, for example.