Jazz at the College of the Pacific

by Dave Brubeck

Jazz at the College of the Pacific cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: April 1954
  • Label: Fantasy
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 57:46
  • Community rating: 3.58/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Joe Dodge, Ron Crotty, Paul Desmond

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Continuing their phenomenally popular campaign of bringing modern jazz to collegiate audiences, this essential live volume highlights an exceptionally tight, swinging aesthetic. The brilliant, highly intellectual interplay effectively legitimized complex musical abstraction for a massive, highly enthusiastic new generation of listeners.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Crazy Rhythm - Live At The College Of The Pacific, Stockton, CA / December 14, 1953 (6:30)
  2. Let's Fall In Love - Live At The College Of The Pacific, Stockton, CA / December 14, 1953 (8:09)
  3. Stardust - Live At The College Of The Pacific, Stockton, CA / December 14, 1953 (8:17)
  4. How High The Moon - Live At The College Of The Pacific, Stockton, CA / December 14, 1953 (8:23)
  5. The Way You Look Tonight - Live At The College Of The Pacific, Stockton, CA / December 14, 1953 (8:01)
  6. Love Walked In - Live At The College Of The Pacific, Stockton, CA / December 14, 1953 (8:07)
  7. Give A Little Whistle - Live At The College Of The Pacific / 1953 (8:43)
  8. I Found A New Baby - Live At The College Of The Pacific, Stockton, CA / December 14, 1953 (1:34)

Credits

  • Dave Brubeck Quartet - primary artist, piano
  • Paul Desmond - primary artist, alto saxophone, featuring
  • Arnold Roth - artwork
  • Ron Crotty - bass
  • Joe Dodge - drums
  • Ruth Lowe - written-by
  • David Raksin - written-by
  • Johnny Mercer - written-by

More from Dave Brubeck: full discography