Brubeck a La Mode

Dave Brubeck

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1991)
• Original Release Date: May 1960
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ojc
• ASIN: B000000YB9
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #143,032 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com essential recording
It's easy to forget that Dave Brubeck ever recorded any fascinating music with a horn player other than Paul Desmond. But in clarinetist William O. Smith, Brubeck had another foil, another thorough, highly developed (and well-regarded) composer with aerated tone and brilliance of ideas. This 1960 set, like Near Myth, features only Smith's compositions, all of them modal, and all of them showing melted edges and gentle bursts of creative improvising. Brubeck is his usual stalwart player, with his stark chords played so that they sound charming. Drummer Joe Morello and bassist Eugene Wright, Brubeck's best rhythm section, step up to Smith's demanding works, playing latticed harmony so that it rumbles a bit beneath the wood-toned clarinet--whose range sounds ever so Desmond-like. This is a sleeper in the Brubeck catalog, but don't let that imply anything negative. It's astounding. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FAR OUT!!!!!!!!!!!, February 28, 2004

By	Christopher Covais "premierdrummer89" (NEW YORK) - See all my reviews

This album is great and swings. I like the clarinet. Even though I like Paul Desmond's smooth alto sax, it was nice to here a different horn man in The Brubeck Group. Joe Morello doesn't get much solo space, but his snare and bass accents are cool. I like his Afro Cuban rythm on one song. This album is great. IT seemed to me that BIll Smith was going progressive and dragging Dave's quartet with him, as my title was, Far Out!!!!!!!

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brandenberg Gate, April 19, 2000

By	Susan Zitron-Woods (Larkspur, Marin County, CA) - See all my reviews

I first heard this in stereo back in 1963. I was struck by it then and still am. If they told me I had only one piece of music to listen to for the rest of my life, it would be Brubeck's Brandenberg Gate. Thankfully it has been remastered on CD. I listen to it at least three times a day, and always feel good afterward.