Jazz Goes to College

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz Goes to College

Jazz Goes to College
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Artist: Dave Brubeck Quartet
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 1989-08-07
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Balcony Rock - Dave Brubeck, Brubeck, Dave
  2. Out of Nowhere - Dave Brubeck, Green, Johnny
  3. Le Souk - Dave Brubeck, Brubeck, Dave
  4. Take the "A" Train - Dave Brubeck, Strayhorn, Billy
  5. The Song Is You - Dave Brubeck, Hammerstein, Oscar
  6. Don't Worry 'Bout Me - Dave Brubeck, Bloom, Rube
  7. I Want to Be Happy - Dave Brubeck, Caesar, Irving

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Hit: 5 Stars

[Follow up: It's just been reissued. Look for the March 2008 reissue of this vital date elsewhere on Amazon.]

How can Sony/Columbia have ignored this recording for twenty years, resulting in prohibitive collectors' prices of fifty dollars and up? This was Brubeck-Desmond's greatest period, before the tamer and more formulaic studio albums, including "Time Out." Exploring the expansive, climactically structured solos of "Balcony Rock," "Le Souk," "I Want to Be Happy," etc. courtesy of the Columbia Record Club was a revelation to tens of thousands of young people in search of an alternative to Dick Clark's American Bandstand, to Elvis and the Beatles. Listening to these sounds now and then checking in on the music that currently encourages a semblance of the same enthusiasm among college-aged young people is to experience disbelief and incomprehension. How could a group without guitars, chest-thumping amplification, straggly hair and denim, and even vocals of any sort produce such excitement?

It's clear that Sony and the other three big domestic recording companies don't care, don't know, and won't spend an extra dime or minute on anything that won't pay big dividends. Count yourself lucky that for a brief moment the industry felt differently: hence Sony's considerable investment in the near-miraculous digital restoration of "Ellington at Newport '56." Also, count yourself fortunate if you still have good equipment for playing LPs. But don't be lured into total complacency. The Brubeck material prior to their signing with Columbia ("At Oberlin," "At College of the Pacific") is equally electric and exciting, and it's available. As for "Jazz Goes to College," look to the non-domestic companies (Absolute Distribution, the Spanish company, is exceptional) and to the downloading services (though there's something unsatisfying about owning an electro-magnetic wave).

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