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Someday My Prince Will Come

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I had never heard Dave Brubeck before, but I used to find this CD in shops that sold used ones. I had already bought some CDs of Jazz Hour. I rent a VHS about Dave and his kids, watched it in the weekend and loved it. So, monday morning I ran to my shop of used CDs madly and looked for it. Bought it and when I came back home at night, ran to the CD player. This one DOESN'T HAVE Take Five, but has wonderful gems like Ellington's Take the A Train, absolutely personal, Mexican Folk Songs, Three to Get Ready, Forty Days and Summer Song, my favourite ones. Forty Days reminds me a ride on a horse, that start peacefully and grows up in intensity and in speed. I love songs like this! Summer Song is gentle, mellow...
A marvelous CD!

Once Again The 1961 Europa Jazz Import EJ1032 has found it's way onto a Compact Disc. That must make nine or ten different labels to date. Someone has discovered a sustaining cottage industry. And once again the track list as printed on the liner notes is not entirely accurate, nor was any of it performed, recorded or produced in 1965.

The album is minus four tracks from that album, but tracks #1, 6, 7, 8 are from "The Quartet" released in 1989 and 1994 The Quartet from the 1961 Europa Jazz LP, with track 8 being not "Summer Song" but "Softly, William, Softly"

The album is also one track short (Take Five) of being the 1967 release Take Five Live, Recorded live in Juan les Pins, 22 July 1967. Tracks #2, 3, 4, 5 are from that album.

The final track, "These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You" is from a May 17, 1968 concert with Gerry Mulligan at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. My information is that Paul Desmond did not appear at either this concert or the earlier May concert in Charlotte which was the same group i.e. Brubeck, Mulligan, Wright, Morello.

I hope this has been a help