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$16.99 to buy the MP3 album or $11.88 if you buy each song individually for 99 cents. I know which one I chose.You would think someone at Amazon might figure this out and adjust something.Great music though.
If you've ever wanted to have the Dave Brubeck quartet play live in your living room just for you, this is the album to get. The musicianship as always is impeccable, and the recording quality is very high. I recommend this album immensely.
I owned the original vinyl record of this concert and was happy to see it available on CD. I bought one for a friend as well as myself because this is the best Brubeck concert ever recorded (in my humble opinion).
The Desmond solo in "Southern Scene" is such a sublime melody that someone should put words to it; so we could then sing it to our children before they go to sleep. Bluntly: most of the Desmond solos are flat-out masterpieces, jewels of lyric simplicity.
Abounds with good solos from Brubeck and Desmond. Years ago I thought some Brubeck harmonies here to be too harsh; but now I find those harmonies beautiful - harshly beautiful, - and thrilling.
This is the Brubeck Quartet album I listen to most often. In "For All We know", Brubeck's solo has dense block-chords, and they usually disturb the animals in my house; but those harmonies make me feel something deep and bittersweet, no matter how many times I hear it.
I particularly like the Brubeck solo at the end of St. Louis Blues; the Muse pushed him to take chances, and his solo's dronelike quality seems dramatic, even apocalyptic.
The Muse was on a roll, pouring inspiration into Desmond, with "For All." and "Southern Scene" leading the way. I could go on and on.
I am not a complete jazz connoisseur, although I do enjoy the likes of Herbie Hancock, Charles Mingus, Eddie Harris, and Miles Davis. The rest of the songs are wonderful, this concert I think represents the quartet at their best. This performance of Blue Rondo I find to be spectacular.
King for a Day gives Eugene Wright a chance to really strut his stuff, which he does with panache. And this recording of Take Five, is, IMHO, the best of them all (and I've got a lot of them). Given that caveat, in my opinion the last 4 tracks on the second CD are among the sweetest jazz sounds I've ever heard.
About 10m in, towards the end of Dave's solo, there's a chord ascension that gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. Castilian Drums gives Joe Morello the same opportunity. Simply amazing.
The best track for me on the first CD is Bossa Nova USA. This is seriously great stuff, that you have to listen to with the volume cranked and completely immerse yourself.
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