Before Time Out, I would have said that some positive trends were apparent from the earlier LPs I’ve heard. “I’ve now heard a number of LPs from Quality Record Pressings (QRP), Chad Kassem’s year-and-a-half-old record-pressing plant. It seems to me that as our gear gets ever more quiet, these QRP LPs continue to wring more musical nuance from the finest recordings.” - Music = 5/5 Sound = 5/5 - Wayne Garcia, The Absolute Sound, January 2013. You’ll hear it right from the familiar piano intro to “Blue Rondo a la Turk,” where Brubeck’s playing seems richer, more lyrical, more rhythmically alive. & G.“The results speak for themselves: the platters from QRP are in my experience the most consistently flat and quiet being pressed today … at least for the foreseeable here and now, Analogue Productions’ newly mastered 45 RPM (Brubeck) is the edition to own. Track list Ī2 " Little Girl Blue" (Hart/Rodgers) 10:40Ī3 "Fare Thee Well, Annabelle" (Wrubel/Dixon) 7:23ī1 " Sometimes I'm Happy" (Caesar/Youmans) 5:23ī4 " Love Walked In" (I. In the cover photo, model and actress Suzy Parker leans on a piano at which Dave Brubeck is seated. According to the liner notes by Brubeck’s longtime producer George Avakian, while the cosmetics company launched an advertising campaign in major fashion magazines in different full-page advertisements, the ladies who bought the lipstick also got a copy of Jazz Combo Tool a small Columbia six inch, red-orange vinyl record in 78 rpm speed which included excerpts from Eddie Condon and Turk Murphy on its Jazz Combo Hot side, and Pete Rugolo and Brubeck on its Jazz Combo Cool side. It took its title from a new shade of lipstick Rubinstein introduced in the late 1954. The cover photograph used for this record was taken by Richard Avedon at hungry i nightclub in San Francisco and was done in partnership with the Helena Rubinstein cosmetics company. The two tracks that were included in the reissue are a traditional piece, composed by Vernon Duke, John La Touche and Ted Fetter, and another original created by Brubeck. Hanley, Lorenz Hart, Ballard MacDonald, Richard Rodgers, Vincent Youmans, Allie Wrubel, and the brothers Ira and George Gershwin. In addition, other highlights came from a book of standards that includes popular tunes composed by Irving Caesar, Mort Dixon, James F. This Columbia Records release, recorded in the intimate set of a night club, is notable for introducing Brubeck's composition The Duke, a tribute to the magisterial Duke Ellington which was destined to become a jazz standard in the years to come, due to its cerebral and intricate harmonic structure. This album presents the pre-classic Quartet with Bob Bates on bass and Joe Dodge on drums backing pianist Dave Brubeck and alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, before the bassist Eugene Wright and drummer Joe Morello joined the most experimental Brubeck Quartet of the sixties.Īs a result, on the strength of the complex chords of Brubeck and the remarkably cool tone of Desmond, relaxing and calming, Bates and Dodge focus on giving a swinging, but solid and quiet accompaniment to the quartet, without disrupting the discursive flow of ideas between the pianist and the altoist. Released originally in 1955, this album was remastered and reissued in 2001, while adding two tracks that were not included in the original album. It was recorded during one 1954 and two 1955 performances at the Basin Street East club in New York City. Jazz: Red Hot and Cool is a jazz live album by The Dave Brubeck Quartet.
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