Dave Brubeck Quartet – Complete 1958 Berlin Concert

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:

The music in this CD comes from no-professional privates tapes and its technical sound quality its no up to today’s standarts. However, it is released because of the impotance of the musicians involved and of its high musical and historical value. Every effort has been made to improve the sound qualilty through advanced restoration technologies.

INCLUDES 2 BONUS TRACKS:

Drummer Joe Dodge left the Dave Brubeck quartet in 1956 to spend more time with his wife and children. He was replaced by Joe Morello. Bassist Norman Bates also left the group the following year for the comforts of home and family. Brubeck chose Eugene Wright to take his place on bass. With Morello and Wright in the fold, the “Classic Quartet” was born. Although Brubeck and Desmond played with several musicians over the years, this new group of Brubeck, Desmond, Wright and Morello would become the most famous of Brubeck’s bands. The Quartet had been together for about a year when the State Department hired them for a “goodwill” tour of Europe in 1958.

Brubeck, Desmond, Wright and Morello made the trip across the Atlantic and performed across two continents for audiences in England, Germany, Scotland, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Turkey, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq. Although four of the six tunes performed in Berlin appeared on a long out of print edition, this is the first time the complete concert appears on CD (“The Duke” and “One Moment Worth Years” have never been previously issued on any format).

PERSONNEL:

PAUL DESMOND, alto sax
DAVE BRUBECK, piano
GENE WRIGHT, bass
JOE MORELLO, drums

Recorded live in Berlin, Germany, February 22, 1958.

TRACKS:

01 THE DUKE *
02 TAKE THE “A” TRAIN
03 TWO PART CONTENTION
04 ONE MOMENT WORTH YEARS*
05 THESE FOOLISH THINGS
06 ST. LOUIS BLUES

TOTAL TIME: 75:30
* Previously unissued

BOX 14