Take Five In A Quartet

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Label: Geneon
Year: 2004
Released on LP: No
Released on CD: No

Tracks

Pennies From Heaven
Out Of The Way
Theme For June
London Flat, London Sharp
Elegy
Take Five
Brahms' Lullaby

Interview with Dave Brubeck - Manfred Frei

Notes

Quartet

Dave Brubeck: piano
Bobby Millitello: alto sax, flute
Michael Moore: bass
Randy Jones: drums


Recorded on July 11th, 2004 at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Germany.

Reviews

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Few jazz musicians are recognized as internationally and across so many genres as Dave Brubeck. The first jazz musician to be featured on Time magazine, he has been a fixture and a pioneer of the jazz music scene for the past fifty years now. But nothing is old or unhip about this veteran composer. Featuring both the classic tunes and his newest works, The Dave Brubeck Quartet entertains their fans with the energy and eloquence of true artists who love their job. With Dave Brubeck on piano, the talented Bobby Militello alternating between alto sax and flute, the solid Michael Moore on bass, and the always-captivating Randy Jones on drums, no song goes wrong and every piece is a musical journey. Perhaps few jazz bands achieve such a complex and entertaining range of music so consistently as The Dave Brubeck Quartet. Recorded on July 11th, 2004 at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Germany

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Dave Brubeck is still going strong at the age of 83 during this 2004 concert in Baden-Baden at the Festspielhaus, well accompanied by alto saxophonist Bobby Militello, bassist Michael Moore, and his longtime drummer Randy Jones. At a point where many jazz musicians rest on their laurels, revisiting past hits exclusively, the pianist mixes in several recent songs. His quartet easily negotiates the demands of his tricky "London Flat, London Sharp" while Brubeck's haunting "Elegy" showcases Militello on flute and Moore's matchless arco bass.

Jones is featured extensively in "Out of the Way of the People" and the inevitable "Take Five." Although Brubeck seems reserved during several of the performances, his lyrical touch is evident throughout much of the concert, which is capped by an encore consisting of a single chorus of "Brahms' Lullaby" at the piano. The audio, video, and editing of this concert is flawless, though Manfred Frei's interview of Brubeck on the empty stage rambles on far too much, as Frei seems unprepared and unable to stay on track with his subject.

Ken Dryden


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