Double Live From the Usa & UK [Live]

Dave Brubeck | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 27, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Live
• Label: Telarc
• ASIN: B000059LCU
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #253,895 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #80 in Music > Indie Music > Jazz > Cool Jazz

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Body And Soul

2. Cherokee

3. Easy To Love

4. What Will I Tell My Heart

5. Sunny Side Of The Street

6. The Things You Never Remember

7. Broadway Bossa Nova

8. Don't Worry About Me

9. Take Five

Disc: 2

1. Margie

2. Waltzing

3. Marian McPartland

4. Exactly Like You

5. Three To Get Ready

6. Take Five

7. Take The A Train

8. Be Natural Blues

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another fantastic Dave Brubeck Recording!, February 28, 2001

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Clay Collins (Dayton, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Double Live From the Usa & UK (Audio CD)

This Double Live CD is just like being at these separate concerts in person! You get the high impact of all the tunes, whether the tempo is fast, slow or medium. I reviewed this CD on my radio"Jazztistically Speaking" WCSU-FM 88.9 in Wilberforce/Dayton,Ohio. It is fantastic. All you have to do is play it in your home unit and enjoy every track! You collectors, don't say I have"Take Five" already;I have twelve different versions of "Take Five", all are great, and none are the same as the other. That's why Jazz works with improvising. "Take the A Train", with Brubeck's recordings, goes back to the 50's also with many versions. Marion McPartland, a tribute to a great lady pianist, of which I have here recordings starting in the 50's. Plus all of the standards on here are Brubeck's special great tunes. Buy it and enjoy!

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great! Brubeck continues to make terrific music., March 2, 2001

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Gregory M. Lucas (Medford, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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I recently saw this latest Brubeck quartet in concert, and the music on these two discs captures that live experience perfectly. Dave, having recently turned 80, is still in top form. The rest of the quartet is equally impressive -- particularly Bobby Militello on sax. He conjures up Paul Desmond with a lyrical, delicate tone one minute and rips in to some blazingly fast, Coltrane-influenced solos the next. Highly recommended.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dave Brubeck and company are better than ever., February 13, 2002

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Stanley C. Pierce "Stan" (Carver, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
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This double CD swings from one end to the other! This is without question my all time favorite Dave Brubeck CD.

I've been a Brubeck fan since around 1952. Followed him faithfully, always enjoying his piano playing, Paul Desmond, Joe Morello, et al. After some years I sort of lost contact until last summer (2001) when I discovered he was celebrating his 80th birthday at a jazz festival in Connecticut.

What a treat to know that Dave is better then ever and Bobby Militello is an unbelievable alto sax player. It was so thrilling to know that I could still hear these amazingly talented musicians live and on new CDs. Shortly after the concert, I started buying the newer CDs and they are all great.

This one, however, has turned me on and I have never stopped listening to it. It is in the car CD player and I take it to the fitness center to play when walking the treadmill. How satisfying it is to know that Dave Brubeck is probably playing the best music ever at 80 years old. And where did he find Bobby Militello- there is no one else like him on alto sax.

The CD has a number of older tunes that have been standards for many years. The really swingy ones excite me- Cherokee, Sunny Side of the Street, Margie, Exactly Like You really swing. Everyone joins in at one time or another- and between Dave and Bobby Militello on sax- who said Brubeck doesn't swing? I could listen to these numbers for hours. They are so good that I tend to walk longer on the treadmill than I planned because listening to them is so enjoyable.

And not to in any way be forgetting the other numbers- Body and Soul has always been a beautiful standard since I was a kid and it is beautifully done. Two versions of Take Five make one realize how much this time has become part of what we are used to. Take the A Train- always a favorite. And another half dozen songs whose titles don't mean a lot to me but where the music is tremendous.

If I could only have one Dave Brubeck CD, this would be it for me. I can't wait for more like this one.