Newport [Import, Live]

Jay, Dave Brubeck | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 27, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Live
• Label: Noctourne
• ASIN: B00000K278
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #526,660 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. In Your Own Sweet Way

2. Two Part Contention

3. Take the "A" Train

4. I'm in a Dancing Mood

5. Lover, Come Back to Me

6. True Blue Tromboniums

7. NWPT

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A live recording classic!, June 15, 2005

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Juan Oliver Colom (San Juan, PR Puerto Rico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Newport (Audio CD)

I own this record in LP, and have been expecting its release in CD for years! This combines two vintage jazz groups at the top of their form, and stimulated by the live audience and the Newport Jazz Festival aura. Catch Paul Desmond's soaring alto -never underestimate the "dry martini" sound. I'm in a Dancing Mood captures the essence of the early Brubeck sound, in different tempos and moods. As for JJ and Kay, the flawless trombone duet can be appreciated at its fullest in what appears to be an easygoing sound while in effect is a virtuoso performance of two masters of their instruments. Five stars all over! To Columbia Records: please, please reissue this masterpiece!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sublime, Cool Jazz, May 19, 2006

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Kenneth J. Nessing - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Newport (Audio CD)

The audience at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival was certainly lucky. Not only did they witness these performances, there was a recording to support the superlatives they no doubt used describing them; that is, until the recording went out of print. The title of this review simply says it all. I have been listening to this record, my father's LP with pops and clicks, for 40 years. A CD re-release is criminally overdue. Yes, the live "In Your Own Sweet Way" appears on a recent Brubeck "best of" collection but there's more here: the magical atmosphere of the recording is best experienced as a complete work. The listener is caught up in the excitement, e.g. the emcee, while introducting Jay & Kai, mentions that this appearance is likely their last as a duo. You feel lucky to "be there." Their twin trombones soar through their set which opens with "Lover Come Back to Me". Brubeck. Jay & Kai. Both on one live, mid-50's Newport recording. Let's get with it, Columbia.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yes, a live recording classic!!, March 26, 2006

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John Ure (New South Wales, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Newport (Audio CD)

I heartily agree with the review posted by Juan Oliver Colom. I too have had the LP since it was released and it has been played so many times over the years that it has become very scratchy, with an occasional jump. The call for its re-issue in CD form is now international - Puerto Rico and Australia!! So, Sony International, please get on with it!