Dave Brubeck - Essential Dave Brubeck (Audio CD - 3/25/2003) [Original recording remastered]

An amazingly comprehensive anthology-thanks to Brubeck, who personally selected the tracks! You get 31 tracks on 2 CDs, spanning 24 albums and 53 years. Take Five; Blue Rondo a la Turk; The Duke; In Your Own Sweet Way; Audrey; Stardust; Unsquare Dance , and more Brubeck brilliance! It's hard to summarize the highlights of a career as long and prolific as Dave Brubeck's in a two-CD compilation. If you're going to settle for that, however, The Essential Dave Brubeck is a good job, spanning 1949 to 2002, with 76 minutes of music on each disc. Although a few of these tracks were drawn from his early Fantasy recordings and his later Concord/MusicMasters/Telarc discs, the overwhelming bulk of them come from his days at Columbia from the mid-'50s through the late '60s. "Take Five" is here, of course, as are some of his better- known recordings, like "Blue Rondo a La Turk," "Take the 'A' Train" a live 1954 performance, "Audrey," and "Some Day My Prince Will Come" from the Dave Digs Disney album. Overall it spotlights the pianist in a variety of settings -- live, solo piano "In Your Sweet Way" and "Weep No More," from Brubeck Plays Brubeck; interpreting West Side Story; bopping, balladeering, bossa nova, with strings; or backing vocalists Louis Armstrong, Carmen McRae, Jimmy Rushing, and Tony Bennett. In fact, no less than a couple dozen albums are sampled over the course of the 31 discs, making this an admirably wide-rangi

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TRACK LISTINGS

Disc 1

1 Indiana (2:34)
2 Perdido (7:48)
3 Take the "A" Train (6:16)
4 Le Souk (4:43)
5 Audrey (3:34)
6 The Duke (2:45)
7 In Your Own Sweet Way (5:00)
8 Weep No More (3:58)
9 Some Day My Prince Will Come (8:18)
10 Tangerine (10:18)
11 Brandenburg Gate (6:52)
12 Three to Get Ready (5:25)
13 Blue Rondo a la Turk (6:45)
14 There'll Be Some Changes Made (2:06)

Disc 2

1 Take Five (5:26)
2 Maria (3:23)
3 It's a Raggy Waltz (5:13)
4 Unsquare Dance (2:02)
5 Kathy's Waltz (3:03)
6 Travelin' Blues (2:56)
7 Summer Song (3:15)
8 That Old Black Magic (3:20)
9 Bossa Nova U.S.A. (2:32)
10 Autumn in Washington Square (5:30)
11 Theme from "MR. Broadway" (2:27)
12 La Paloma Azul (The Blue Dove) (6:21)
13 Recuerdo (5:25)
14 Caravan (4:18)
15 Stardust (5:23)
16 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (7:29)
17 Love for Sale (8:36)