Artist: Dave Brubeck Quartet
Title Of Album: Gone With the Wind
Recording Date: Los Angeles Apr 22, 1959,Apr 23, 1959
Release Date: October 25, 1990
Label: Columbia
Genre: Jazz / Cool / West Coast Jazz
Quality: FLAC (image + Cue + Log +Full scan + Info)
Bitrate: Lossless
Mono/Stereo : mono
Total Time: 40:26
Total Size: 186 Mb
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AMG:
This dynamic quartet, strongly influential during the cool jazz period, performed as a group
from 1951 to 1967. Since the 1930s, leader Dave Brubeck received high praise and critical
acclaim for his role as bandleader and for his stirring arrangements. At the piano, Brubeck
plays along with the accompaniment of Paul Desmond, another timeless jazz legend in his
own right. Joe Morello drives the rhythm of the group on drums and percussion with the
help of Gene Wright, who shares his talent and pulsating beats on standup bass. Desmond
is featured on this collection of standards, jamming along on the alto sax to tunes such as
“Swanee River,” “That Lonesome Road,” and “Basin Street Blues.” Brubeck shimmers with
radiance and phenomenal craftiness in his piano improvisation at the end of “Georgia on My
Mind.” Morello gives it his creative all with a rich flair for rhythm during his strong solo
performance on the tune “Short’nin’ Bread.” It is here that a superb call-and-response
exchange between Morello’s drums and Brubeck’s piano is rendered. The song “Camptown
Races” is featured here in two takes. Its mood and rhythmic power is intense and uplifting,
pulling the listener into its dreamy percussive web. One can almost feel the crowd of
thousands cheering a group of racehorses making their way around the turn to a photo
finish.The album as a whole is filled with wonderful surprises and contains some of the best that
the cool jazz style has to offer. It is written in the record notes that the foursome believed
this would be a special session from the very first take. The group played several of these
tunes for the first time in the studio, working out the final product spontaneously. This
recording is masterful in scope and very stimulating in style and detail. The percussion of
Morello and the bass playing of Wright are quite colorful and filled with texture and majestic
rhythmic quality. Desmond’s lead on the alto sax is compelling and passionate, filled with
joyous melodies that would be perfect for a romantic date. His ability to surf up, down, and
through scale passages with a sense of effortlessness is certainly full proof as to why he is
regarded with such high esteem within the entire spectrum of jazz. Dave Brubeck’s
proficiency resonates throughout the record as he shows off his classically trained ear.
Brubeck is one of the few pianists who, during his day, clearly avoided standard bop melodic
conceptions and rhythmic feeling, and played within a unique style very much his own.
Gone With the Wind is strongly recommended not only for the seasoned jazz fan, but also
for first-time listeners who wish to be thoroughly captivated.
*****
Track Listing:
01.Swanee River
02.The Lonesome Road
03.Georgia on My Mind
04.Camptown Races
05.Camptown Races
06.Short’nin’ Bread
07.Basin Street Blues
08.Ol’ Man River
09.Gone With the Wind
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Personnel:
Dave Brubeck: piano
Paul Desmond: alto sax
Joe Morello: drums
Gene Wright: bass
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