Immortal Concerts - N.Y.C., Carnegie Hall, February 22, 1963
Beskrivning:I februari 1963 spelade pianisten Dave Brubecks kvartett en bejublad konsert i New Yorks Carnegie Hall. I bandet ingick Paul Desmond as, Gene Wright b och Joe Morello dr. Brubecks kvartett var osannolikt framgångsrik för att vara en jazzgrupp och fick (naturligtvis) ta en hel del skit för det. Men i Carnegie Hall gav de kritikerna svar på tal.
"For all those who have a big axe to grind with Brubeck, for all those who claim the band was only successful because they were predominantly white, or played pop-jazz, or catered to the exotica craze, or any of that, you are invited to have all of your preconceptions, tepid arguments, and false impressions hopelessly torn to shreds by....one of the great live jazz albums of the 1960s....The band moves through all their hits and their new instincts gained from traveling abroad for the better part of six years. With cuts like "Bossa Nova U.S.A" and "Blue Rondo a la Turk," the quartet breathed new fire both melodically and tonally into their won material, while other standards such as "Pennies From Heaven," were literally harmonically reinvented by the intense counterpoint, double and even triple that went on between Desmond and Brubeck....At Carnegie Hall reveals the band at the epitome of its musical -- harmonic, rhythmic, melodic, improvisational -- strength with near telepathic communication. It swings like a mother and offers an entirely new dimension to the definition of "melodic improvisation"." (Thom Jurek, allmusic.com)
8 spår; speltid 70:37.
Språk:
Skivbolag: Giants of Jazz CD 53031 (1963)
Format: CD
Skick: Begagnad
Spår:
- St Louis blues
- Bossa nova U.S.A.
- For all we know
- Pennies from heaven
- Southern scene (Briar Bush)
- Three to get ready
- Blue rondo à la Turk
- Take five