Time Signatures: A Career Retrospective

Dave Brubeck

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Time Signatures: A Career Retrospective Review

by Scott Yanow

This four-CD boxed set does a near-perfect job of summing up Dave Brubeck's extensive recorded legacy. Drawing its recordings from not only Columbia but Fantasy, Atlantic and Music Masters, the attractive package also includes an extensive booklet written by Doug Ramsey that can serve as a mini-biography. The focus is naturally on the Brubeck Quartet with altoist Paul Desmond but there is also music from before and after their association, even including one otherwise unissued performance, a remarkable polytonal polyrhythmic version of "Tritonis." Although completists will prefer to acquire Dave Brubeck's individual releases, this set is perfect for those just beginning to explore the magic of his music.

Track Listing - Disc 1

Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1
Curtain Music (Closing Theme)
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 00:34 SpotifyAmazon
2
(Back Home Again In) Indiana
James F. Hanley / Ballard MacDonald
Dave Brubeck 02:36 SpotifyAmazon
3
Body and Soul
Frank Eyton / Johnny Green / Edward Heyman / Robert Sour
Dave Brubeck 03:46 SpotifyAmazon
4
Undecided
Sydney Robin / Charlie Shavers
Dave Brubeck 02:30 SpotifyAmazon
5
The Way You Look Tonight
Dorothy Fields / Jerome Kern
Dave Brubeck 03:02 SpotifyAmazon
6
Look for the Silver Lining
Buddy DeSylva / Jerome Kern
Dave Brubeck 03:44 SpotifyAmazon
7
Over the Rainbow
Harold Arlen / E.Y. "Yip" Harburg
Dave Brubeck 05:07 SpotifyAmazon
8
Perdido
Ervin Drake / Hans Lengsfelder / Juan Tizol
Dave Brubeck 07:50 SpotifyAmazon
9
Le Souk
Dave Brubeck / Paul Desmond
Dave Brubeck 04:39 SpotifyAmazon
10
Stompin' for Mili
Dave Brubeck / Paul Desmond
Dave Brubeck 05:22 SpotifyAmazon
11
The Duke
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 02:48 SpotifyAmazon
12
Two-Part Contention
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 05:41 SpotifyAmazon
13
In Your Own Sweet Way
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 08:43 SpotifyAmazon
14
History of a Boy Scout (We Crossed the Rhine)
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 04:36 SpotifyAmazon
15
Someday My Prince Will Come
Frank Churchill / Larry Morey
Dave Brubeck 08:17 SpotifyAmazon

Track Listing - Disc 2

Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1
Tangerine
Johnny Mercer / Victor Schertzinger
Dave Brubeck 10:24 SpotifyAmazon
2
Jump for Joy
Duke Ellington / Sid Kuller / Paul Francis Webster
Dave Brubeck 05:29 SpotifyAmazon
3
The Golden Horn
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 05:04 SpotifyAmazon
4
Marble Arch
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 07:01 SpotifyAmazon
5
Georgia on My Mind
Hoagy Carmichael / Stuart Gorrell
Dave Brubeck 06:40 SpotifyAmazon
6
Three to Get Ready
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 05:25 SpotifyAmazon
7
Blue Rondo a la Turk
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 06:46 SpotifyAmazon
8
Strange Meadowlark
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 07:26 SpotifyAmazon
9
Take Five
Paul Desmond
Dave Brubeck 05:26 SpotifyAmazon
10
Darktown Strutters' Ball
Shelton Brooks
Dave Brubeck 01:40 SpotifyAmazon
11
Offshoot
William O. Smith
Dave Brubeck 02:40 SpotifyAmazon
12
There'll Be Some Changes Made
Billy Higgins / W. Benton Overstreet
Dave Brubeck 02:06 SpotifyAmazon

Track Listing - Disc 3

Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1
Allegro Blues
Howard Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 05:36 SpotifyAmazon
2
Somewhere
Leonard Bernstein / Stephen Sondheim
Dave Brubeck 04:18 SpotifyAmazon
3
Weep No More
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 02:51 SpotifyAmazon
4
Charles Matthew Hallelujah
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 02:53 SpotifyAmazon
5
Unsquare Dance
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 02:03 SpotifyAmazon
6
Why Phillis
Eugene Wright
Dave Brubeck 02:19 SpotifyAmazon
7
Kathy's Waltz
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 03:03 SpotifyAmazon
8
Travelin' Blues
Dave Brubeck / Iola Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 02:52 SpotifyAmazon
9
Summer Song
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 03:17 SpotifyAmazon
10
The Real Ambassadors
Dave Brubeck / Iola Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 03:10 SpotifyAmazon
11
Non-Sectarian Blues
Charles Mingus
Dave Brubeck 03:45 SpotifyAmazon
12
Bossa Nova U.S.A.
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 02:26 SpotifyAmazon
13
It's a Raggy Waltz
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 06:39 SpotifyAmazon
14
The World's Fair
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 02:46 SpotifyAmazon
15
Fujiyama
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 05:04 SpotifyAmazon
16
Upstage Rumba
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 04:11 SpotifyAmazon
17
Little Man with a Candy Cigar
Matt Dennis / F. Killduff
Dave Brubeck 03:36 SpotifyAmazon
18
My Favorite Things
Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rodgers
Dave Brubeck 02:57 SpotifyAmazon
19
Lost Waltz
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 03:52 SpotifyAmazon

Track Listing - Disc 4

Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1
I Get a Kick out of You
Cole Porter
Dave Brubeck 05:18 SpotifyAmazon
2
Koto Song
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 08:06 SpotifyAmazon
3
La Paloma Azul (The Blue Dove)
Traditional
Dave Brubeck 06:21 SpotifyAmazon
4
Estrellita (Little Star)
Manuel Ponce
Dave Brubeck 04:54 SpotifyAmazon
5
Forty Days
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 07:26 SpotifyAmazon
6
Sapito
Gerry Mulligan
Dave Brubeck 03:10 SpotifyAmazon
7
Recuerdo
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 05:21 SpotifyAmazon
8
St. Louis Blues
W.C. Handy
Dave Brubeck 06:37 SpotifyAmazon
9
Mr. Broadway
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 02:46 SpotifyAmazon
10
Caravan
Duke Ellington / Irving Mills / Juan Tizol
Dave Brubeck 04:14 SpotifyAmazon
11
Tritonis
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 07:59 SpotifyAmazon
12
Benjamin
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck 03:49 SpotifyAmazon
13
Stardust
Hoagy Carmichael / Mitchell Parish
Dave Brubeck 05:23 SpotifyAmazon
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