Newport 1958

by Dave Brubeck

Newport 1958 cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1959
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 48:31
  • Community rating: 3.74/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Joe Benjamin, Joe Morello, Paul Desmond

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Specifically tailored for the international festival crowd, this set consists entirely of brilliant compositions inspired by European and Middle Eastern traditional music. The complex time signatures directly foreshadowed the massive, groundbreaking success of 'Time Out' the following year.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, improvisation, technical, instrumental, live

Tracklist

  1. Things Ain't What They Used to Be
  2. Jump for Joy
  3. Perdido
  4. Liberian Suite: Dance No. 3
  5. The Duke
  6. Flamingo
  7. C Jam Blues

Credits

  • The Dave Brubeck Quartet - primary artist, piano, written-by
  • Joe Benjamin - bass
  • Joe Morello - drums
  • Robert Andrew Parker - painting
  • Paul Desmond - saxophone
  • Mercer Ellington - written-by
  • Ted Persons - written-by
  • Duke Ellington - written-by

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