Dave Brubeck's Greatest Hits

by Dave Brubeck

Dave Brubeck's Greatest Hits cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1966
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 43:35
  • Community rating: 4/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This essential compilation distills the massive, unprecedented crossover success of the pianist's classic working quartet. Featuring the profoundly influential 'Take Five' alongside other key explorations of complex, asymmetrical time signatures, the collection highlights Paul Desmond's uniquely lyrical saxophone tone against Brubeck's heavy, polytonal chords, cementing their legacy as the most commercially viable ambassadors of academic West Coast cool jazz.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, instrumental, uncommon-time-signatures, acoustic

Tracklist

  1. Take Five (5:24)
  2. I'm in a Dancing Mood (2:59)
  3. In Your Own Sweet Way (4:57)
  4. Camptown Races (1:56)
  5. The Duke - Live (6:29)
  6. It'S A Raggy Waltz (5:11)
  7. Bossa Nova U.S.A. (2:23)
  8. Trolley Song (3:03)
  9. Unsquare Dance (1:59)
  10. Blue Rondo 脿 la Turk (6:43)
  11. Theme From "Mr. Broadway" (2:26)

Credits

  • Dave Brubeck - primary artist, piano, written-by
  • Paul Desmond - alto saxophone, written-by
  • Eugene Wright - bass
  • Joe Morello - drums
  • Al Goodhart - written-by
  • Al Hoffman - written-by
  • Maurice Sigler - written-by
  • Stephen Foster - written-by

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