Only The Best of Dave Brubeck (4-CD)

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CD Details

Number of Discs: 4
Released: December 30, 2008
Originally Released: 2008
Label: Collectables Records

Description by OLDIES.com:

The classic albums in this set include "Truth Is Fallen", "Two Generations of Brubeck - Brother, The Great Spirit Made Us All!", "All The Things We Are", "Last Set At Newport" and "On Time"

Tracks on Disc 1:

1.Prelude Merciful Men Are Taken Away
2.Truth Is Fallen
3.Oh, That My Head Were Waters Speak Out (Duet) I Called And No One Answered
4.Yea Truth Faileth Truth (Planets Are Spinning)
5.Is The Lord's Hand Shortened? Arise!
6.Mr. Broadway
7.Forty Days
8.The Duke
9.It's A Raggy Waltz
10.Sky Scape
11.Temptation Boogie
12.Ragaroni
13.Christopher Columbus

Tracks on Disc 2:

1.Like Someone In Love
2.In Your Own Sweet Way
3.All The Things You Are
4.Jimmy Van Heusen Medley
5.Don't Get Around Much Anymore

Tracks on Disc 3:

1.Introduction By Father Norman O'Connor
2.Blues For Newport
3.Take Five
4.Open The Gates (Out Of The Way Of The People)

Tracks on Disc 4:

1.Take Five
2.Blue Rondo Á La Turk
3.Unsquare Dance
4.Out Of Nowhere
5.Somewhere
6.There'll Be Some Changes Made
7.You Go To My Head
8.Besame Mucho
9.Win A Few, Lose A Few
10.Forty Days

Product Description:

Personnel: Dave Brubeck (piano); Dave Mason (vocals, guitar, viola); Peter "Madcat" Ruth (vocals, flute, harmonica, Jew's harp); Chris Brubeck (vocals, trombone, keyboards, electric bass); Chris Brown (vocals, electric bass); Perry Robinson (clarinet); Jerry Bergonzi (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Lee Konitz, Anthony Braxton (alto saxophone); Alan Dawson (baritone saxophone, drums); Gerry Mulligan (baritone saxophone); Darius Brubeck (electric piano); Roy Haynes (drums); Lowell Thompson (bongos).

Audio Remixer: Lewis Hahn.

Liner Note Authors: Dave Brubeck; Joe H. Klee; George Wein; Michael Cuscuna.

Recording information: C.I. Studios, New York, NY; Newport Jazz Festival.

Author: Dave Brubeck.

Director: Gordon Franklin.

Photographer: David Gahr.

ONLY THE BEST OF DAVE BRUBECK contains five albums in their entirety: ON TIME (a compilation album issued near the end of the pianist's tenure with Columbia Records) and four Atlantic sets from the 1970s: ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE, TRUTH IS FALLEN, TWO GENERATIONS OF BRUBECK, and LAST SET AT NEWPORT. These sides do reveal Brubeck himself at a kind of creative peak, but not necessarily in the best musical company. Not that the music contained here isn't enjoyable and at times even brilliant; it's simply not as awe-inspiring as the sides he cut in the '40s, '50s, and early '60s.