Jazz at Oberlin [Live]

1. These Foolish Things

2. Perdido

3. Stardust

4. Way You Look Tonight

5. How High the Moon

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Average customer rating: Jazz goes to college Dave Shows What He Is Made Of Not only guilt-free but absolutely essential. Timeless This is the stuff!!

Jazz at Oberlin Dave Brubeck Quartet Manufacturer: Ojc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Jazz Goes to College The Dave Brubeck Quartet at Carnegie Hall Jazz at the College of the Pacific Time Out Jazz at the College of the Pacific 2 ASIN: B000000Y2W Release Date: 1991-07-01

Tracks:

1. These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
2. Perdido
3. Stardust
4. The Way You Look Tonight
5. How High The Moon

Customer Reviews:

Jazz goes to college.......2007-06-05

This is a great recording of the Dave Brubeck quartet at Oberlin College in 1953. Its the first Brubeck album I ever bought, and whilst it predates the most famous of Brubeck's quartets, it has Paul Desmond on Alto and that makes its essential.

Great versions of How High the Moon and Perdido are perhaps highlights, but the whole album is superb. The contrast between Brubecks aggressive Piano solos and Desmonds flighty alto is amazing, yet somehow they were made for each other. The quality of musicianship is of the highest order, sometimes they throw in a bits of Bach (or Bach like), Brubeck gets into semi-modern classical music at some points and the rest of the time the band are just swinging.

I'm not familiar with the bass player and drummer but they play more than an adequate supporting role to two giants of Jazz.

Dave Shows What He Is Made Of.......2004-01-22

I purchased this album a couple of years ago. Being a very huge Brubeck fan this album did not disappoint. His music in 1953 was every bit as challenging as the Time Out stuff. This is a great album to get especially if you are just being introduced to jazz. Dave always sounds simple, tame and safe on the surface which attracts you to his music and to jazz. Once you start listening and getting into it you realize the complexity. The only reason I did not give this 5 stars is because in reading the liner notes I discovered this was a 2 and 1/2 hour concert and only 40 minutes are represented on this CD. It would be great to have the concert in it's entirety especially considering its historical significance. Buy this CD anyhow; and maybe someone will find the rest of the show and re-release as a complete concert.

Not only guilt-free but absolutely essential........2003-01-13

I find it hard to believe that when I arrived on a college campus in the early sixties I was quickly indoctrinated by the "insiders" among the jazz players into disavowing any interest in the music of Brubeck or Desmond. Both were deemed not only too commercial but too West Coast, too white, too fay, too unaffected by the Bird revolution.

Not only is the foregoing among the most myopic viewpoints ever shared by musicians, but it is equally mistaken to assume Brubeck's music is not a force to be reckoned with until the "Time Out" recordings. Let the Oberlin record speak for itself: it represents improvisation of the highest order by two musicians at the very peak of their creative powers.

Take Paul's solo on "Just the Way You Look Tonight": He quotes from Prokofief, Stravinsky, and at least 3 American composers while building an emotional, pyrotechnical, beautifully structured solo spurred on by the audible vocal encouragements of Brubeck himself. Who could follow that? Brubeck does, not only matching but possibly topping it, with thunderous, wildly inventive yet boldly assertive, polyrhythmic melodic statements played in octaves in the left hand.

There's a widespread myth, proven wrong time and again, that the best music occurs when great soloists are accompanied by equally heralded drummers and bass players. To the contrary, the most spirited and swinging jazz always happens when players know their roles and listen to each other.

Before your jazz collection numbers more than 10 albums, make certain that this is one of them.

Timeless.......2002-12-03

This recording is 50 years old but loses none of its luster. The sheer joy of the performance and the appreciation of the audience makes this album pure pleasure. The last four tracks are among the best that Brubeck and Desmond ever did. The creativity and chemistry among the musicians has few rivals in the jazz genre. Amusing quotes and references to other songs, quasi-classical forms including Bach-like fugues between Brubeck and Desmond make for much fun in listening (I always hear something new) and it swings!

This is the stuff!!.......2002-10-22

This happened to be one of the first jazz albums I ever heard, and I thought that was why I liked it so much. But truly, I have rarely heard other material that comes close to the thrill and synchronicity of this performance. All the songs are solid.
Desmond's touch is alternately floating and soaring, while Brubeck has some of the most dissonant and staccato chords somehow mixed with beautiful phrasing, and the two weave together like flowing water. I've heard another live set by this quartet that was recorded only a few months from this date, and they just didn't have it, but man did they have it in this set!! I'm not a jazz expert, but the feel and mood created here is so beautiful, powerful, and emotive. I strongly recommend it!

Average customer rating:

Jazz at Oberlin Dave Brubeck Quartet Manufacturer: Fantasy ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000AZKKT Release Date: 2003-09-30

Tracks:

1. These Foolish Things
2. Perdido
3. Stardust
4. Way You Look Tonight
5. How High the Moon

Average customer rating:

Jazz at Oberlin Dave Brubeck Quartet Manufacturer: Fantasy ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000058B9B

Tracks:

1. These Foolish Things
2. Perdido
3. Stardust
4. Way You Look Tonight
5. How High the Moon

Album Details

20 bit remastered.

Average customer rating: Not worth the extra bits.

Jazz at Oberlin (20 Bit Mastering) Dave Brubeck Quartet Manufacturer: Fantasy ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Paul Desmond Quartet Live The Dave Brubeck Octet Jazz Goes to College Jazz at the College of the Pacific Like Someone in Love ASIN: B00008OM7X Release Date: 2003-04-01

Tracks:

1. These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
2. Perdido
3. Stardust
4. The Way You Look Tonight
5. How High The Moon

Customer Reviews:

Not worth the extra bits........2003-08-28

This is, IMO, the Brubeck Quartet's best recording ever (Paul is simply incredible), not to mention one of the most inspired examples of the art of jazz improvisation on record. For this reason, I thought it wise to retire my old copy and order this new, limited (10,000 copies), 50th anniversary edition with "20 Bit Mastering." My decision was influenced by the frequently miraculous engineering evident on recent Sony-Columbia reissues. But Fantasy records, not Sony, was responsible for this restoration. The only noticeable improvement on this "Jazz at Oberlin" edition over my old copy is slightly better definition of the walking bass lines. On the other hand, the drums are more muffled, the alto is overly "present" in relation to the other instruments, and the piano sounds thin and "dead," especially in the bass register.

If you don't have this album, by all means pick it up, but look for any edition at the best price. The musical content is what makes this one a winner.

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