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THE DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET

       (featuring Paul Desmond)

Recorded live at the Newport Jazz Festival (1953),
this Dave Brubeck recording is, among the
vast  production  of the artist, the one that
obtained the largest success with his fans
in the U,S,A,
Brubeck has been considered by the public as well as 
the professionals as the most popular jazzman of the
West Coast.
The  compositions  performed  in this album  are
standards of jazz. Brubeck and Desmond largely
improvise on these themes and seem to be at the
best of their capacity.
I'll never smile again, a side from solos by Brubeck
and Desmond, has a bass solo by Ron Crotty.
Let's fall in love gets a slight Christmas Carol sound
in the beginning and Brubeck has a solo of an unusual
mood.   Desmond, of course,  is  heard  at length  and
Crotty is also given time for a short statement.
Sturdust shows the pattern with which the group has
always played it.   The audience applause following
Desmond's long improvisation, quickly brings to mind
the  familiar  picture  of  Desmond  acknowlodging  it
with a light smile, hands folded over the saxophone as
he steps back to stand, with head  cocked to one side,
listening attentively  to the chorus  by Brubeck which
followed.
All the things you are is  a bright number  with Paul
beginning  his  solo  with a light, almost clarinet tone
and Dave  interpolating  a quote from "My Man" into
his solo. Note particularly the way in  which Desmond
creeps in his own solo on the tail of Brubecks's closing
phrase.The two then begin their celebrated dual impro-
visation.
Why do I love you is the shortest piece  in the album
and is almost a "tour the force" for Desmond. Brubeck
enters closely tied  to Desmond's solo  and there is an
interesting passage  by both  before the bright duet  at
the end.
Too marvelous for words has an interesting Brube-
ckian touch  of almost  boogie woogie  trilling  in the
in the middle  of the piano solo which follows Paul's
opening improvisation.     You may catch an eco of
"Digga Digga do"  in Brubeck's chorus  prior to the
entry of Ron Crotty for his last bass solo on the al-
bum.    -    The ending of this tune and the album is
replete with the double echoes of alto and piano as
Paul and Dave again join musical thoughts.
CONTINUA... to be continued...