Brubeck Plays Brubeck (Reis) [Original recording remastered]

Dave Brubeck | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 20, 1998)
• Original Release Date: 1956
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00000DFSE
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #378,623 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Swing Bells

2. Walkin' Line

3. In Your Own Sweet Way

4. Two-Part Contention

5. Weep No More

6. The Duke

7. When I Was Young

8. One Moment Worth Years

9. The Waltz

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Hopefully, the reappearance of this revelatory 1956 record will force many critics and musicians to reconsider Brubeck's stature in the world of jazz piano. Recorded late at night in his Oakland, California, home, it was Brubeck's first full solo-piano recording and also his first all-original record, and it illustrates his marvelously elegant fusion of classical and cocktail conceptions. Brubeck understands blues and swing, but he uses these elements as tools for effect, not as default settings. Brubeck instead offers a fuller palette of emotions and ideas--playful, sober, stern, happy, pensive, cerebral. While "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke" have become standards, the album includes obscure gems such as the minisuite "Two-Part Contention," with its many tempo, mood, and stylistic turns, and the discreetly swinging "Walkin' Line," although he lapses into melodrama with "Weep No More." Still, on "The Duke" (originally titled "The Duke Meets Darius Milhaud"), it's fascinating to hear how easily and smoothly he fits all 12 scale notes into his opening bass figure. As he himself points out in the brilliant original notes (reprinted here), the marriage of European music and American music dates back to New Orleans jazzmen such as King Oliver. And to dismiss any notions of intellectualism in jazz would be a great insult to everyone from Oliver to Charlie Parker to John Lewis to Bill Evans to Sun Ra. This is the jazz of Brubeck's own experience, and while it may sound too poised and polished for some tastes, it is honestly his and must be viewed as such. --Marc Greilsamer

Product Description

Out of print in the U.S.! UK CD pressing of this 1956 album from the Jazz great. Sony/BMG. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solo Brubeck - an astonishingly good work, March 9, 2000

By 

Frederic Gray (Fairfax Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brubeck Plays Brubeck (Reis) (Audio CD)

I waited years for this to come out on CD. As a wannabe jazz pianist, I got the LP and wore it out. There is a companion set of music books with faithful transcription by Howard Brubeck. Brubeck is by far the best composer for jazz piano, and these selections are some of his best works. If you play, get this and the book and proceed to learn a lot. If you just love jazz piano, this is one of the very best.

0 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One Alone, January 20, 2004

By 

Ian Brown (Livingston, scotland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brubeck Plays Brubeck (Reis) (Audio CD)

This is the best song of all the desert songs and i was wondering if there was a website where I could get the words to it as i only remember some of the words.

regards Ian Brown