Dave Brubeck – Alto CD https://altocd.com Classical Music and Nostalgia CDs Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:41:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 BRUBECK’S BEST – The Dave Brubeck Quartet https://altocd.com/product/brubecks-best-the-dave-brubeck-quartet/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:40:43 +0000 https://amuletts.com/altocd/?post_type=product&p=51550 BRUBECK’S BEST – The Dave Brubeck Quartet Dave Brubeck Quartet Catalogue Number: ALN 1933 Number of Discs: 1 Date/Runtime: Time: 73:54 Stereo 1955/62
]]> “During the 50’s, the Dave Brubeck Quartet became one of America’s most successful groups, playing ‘West Coast Cool Jazz’. Their second album Jazz Goes to College sold over 100,000 and Brubeck became the first jazz musician to feature on the cover of Time magazine, Before then, jazz had rarely engaged the white middle-class students and ‘pop’ audiences of the late 1950’s that surfed the Elvis phenomenon and indicated the arrival of ‘teenagers’ with money !

  • 1. Take Five 1959 5:23
  • 2. Blue Rondo à La Turk 1959 6:42
  • 3. Unsquare Dance 1962 2:02
  • 4. It’s a Raggy Waltz 1962 5:11
  • 5. In your own Sweet Way 1955 4:58
  • 6. Three to Get Ready 1959 5:22
  • 7. Pick up Sticks 1959 4:16
  • 8. Blue Shadows in the Street 1962 6:35
  • 9. Two-Part Contention 1956 5:37
  • 10. The Waltz 1956 3:50
  • 11. Everybody’s Jumpin’ 1959 4:22
  • 12. The Most Beautiful Girl in the World 1962 5:17
  • 13. I Feel Pretty (Bernstein/Sondheim) 1962 5:08
  • 14. Camptown Races 1962 1:57
  • 15. Take The ‘A’ Train (Strayhorn) 1959 6:12
]]> Jazz for Cocktails https://altocd.com/product/jazz-for-cocktails-2/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:38:49 +0000 https://amuletts.com/altocd/?post_type=product&p=51271 Jazz for Cocktails another 'superior musical evening' Dave Brubeck Quartet; Stan Getz; Oscar Peterson; Ben Webster; George Shearing; Barney Kessell; Acker Bilk; Errol Garner Catalogue Number: ALN 1925 Number of Discs: 1 Date/Runtime: 75:39, ADD stereo]]> “This further, inspired collection of Piano, Sax and Guitar Masterpieces by All-Time Great artists provides another superior musical evening” (76mins)

  • 1. Take Five (Desmond) – Dave Brubeck Quartet (1959) 5:25
  • 2. Time After Time (Styne/Cahn) – Stan Getz (1957) 6:42
  • 3. Evening in Paris (Jones) – Quincy Jones (1956) 4:06
  • 4. Night and Day (Porter) – Oscar Peterson Trio (1959) 2:36
  • 5. Just In Time (Styne/Comden/Green) – Barney Kessell (1957) 4:57
  • 6. Almost Like Being in Love (Loewe/Lerner) – Ben Webster (1954) 3:59
  • 7. Lullaby of Birdland (Shearing/Weiss) – George Shearing Quintet (1952) 2:39
  • 8. Imagination (Van Heusen/Burke) – Chet Baker Quartet (1953) 3:00
  • 9. Time on My Hands (Youmans/Gordon/Adamson) – Erroll Garner Trio/1956. 4:18
  • 10. Stella By Starlight (Young/Washington) – Miles Davis Quintet (1958) 4:43
  • 11. Unsquare Dance (Brubeck) – Dave Brubeck Quartet (1961) 2:00
  • 12. Don’t Get Around Much Anymore (Ellington/Russell) –
    Ben Webster with Oscar Peterson (1953) 3:06
  • 13. Every Time We Say Goodbye (Porter) – Oscar Peterson Trio (1959) 2:23
  • 14. Our Love is Here to Stay (G. & I. Gershwin) – Stan Getz (1955) 3:22
  • 15. On a Slow Boat to China (Loesser) – Barney Kessell (1954) 3:14
  • 16. Blue Moon (Rodgers/Hart) – George Shearing (1960) 3:00
  • 17. I’ll Close My Eyes (Reis) – Kenny Burrell (1957) 4:47
  • 18. But Not For Me (G. & I. Gershwin) – Erroll Garner Trio (1956) 3:35
  • 19. Just Friends (Klenner/Lewis) – Charlie Parker with Strings (1952) 3:30
  • 20. Stranger on the Shore (Bilk) – 2:56
    Acker Bilk with the Leon Young String Chorale (1961)
]]> Jazz for Cocktails https://altocd.com/product/jazz-for-cocktails/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:38:06 +0000 https://amuletts.com/altocd/?post_type=product&p=51162 Jazz for Cocktails Errol Garner/ Ben Webster/ George Shearing / Art Tatum / Stan Getz / Oscar Peterson / Dave Brubeck / Coleman Hawkins Catalogue Number: ALN 1915 Number of Discs: 1 Date/Runtime: A/ADD 77:24 1953/9]]> “This new, inspired collection of Piano, Sax and Guitar Masterpieces by All-Time Great artists provides a truly superior musical evening”

  • 1. Misty (Garner) Erroll Garner Trio Rec.1954

– 2.49

  • 2 Night and Day (Porter) Art Tatum Rec.1950 – 3.32
  • 3. Stella By Starlight (Young/Washington) Charlie Parker/Strings 1957 – 2.57
  • 4. Moonlight Becomes You (Burke/Van Heusen) Chet Baker 1953 – 2.56
  • 5. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Kern/Harbach) Nat ‘King’ Cole Trio 1946 – 2.59
  • 6. Laura (Raskin/Mercer) Dave Brubeck Trio Rec.1950 – 2.47
  • 7. I’ve Got You Under My Skin (Porter)
    Dizzy Gillespie and his Operatic Strings Orchestra Rec.1953 – 2.23
  • 8. Over The Rainbow (Arlen/Harburg) George Shearing Quintet 1951 -2.26
  • 9. Blue Moon (Rodgers/Hart) Oscar Peterson Trio Rec.1952 – 2.42
  • 10. Exactly Like You (McHugh/Fields) Erroll Garner Trio Rec.1954 – 3.15
  • 11. That’s All (Brandt/Haymes) Ben Webster Rec.1953 – 3.48
  • 12. Laura (Raskin/Mercer) Barney Kessel Rec.1956 – 3.23
  • 13. These Foolish Things (Strachey/Maschwitz) Stan Getz Quintet 1952 – 3.20
  • 14 You Go To My Head (Coots/Gillespie) Oscar Peterson Trio 1952 – 3.57
  • 15. There Is No Greater Love (Symes/Jones) Sonny Rollins 1957 – 5.13
  • 16 Always (Berlin) Dave Brubeck Trio Rec.1951 – 2.51
  • 17 Easy To Love (Porter) George Shearing Quintet Rec.1953 – 2.15
  • 18. Woodyn’You (Wouldn’t You) (Gillespie) Miles Davis Sextet 1952 – 3.28
  • 19 In The Cool Of Evening (Cole) Nat ‘King’ Cole Trio 1946 – 2.58
  • 20 My Heart Stood Still (Rodgers/Hart) Art Tatum Rec.1949 – 3.12
  • 21.You’re Blasé (Hamilton) Coleman Hawkins Rec.1957 – 3.35
  • 22 September Song (Weill/Anderson) Dave Brubeck Trio Rec.1950 – 3.30
  • 23 April In Paris (Duke/Harburg) Thelonious Monk Trio Rec.1947 – 3.23
  • 24.When Lights Are Low (Carter/Williams) George Shearing Quintet 1952– 2.43
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