Dave Brubeck at UNT

The Dave Brubeck Quartet was a jazz quartet, founded in 1951 by Dave Brubeck and featuring Paul Desmond on saxophone and Brubeck on piano^[1]. They took up a long residency at San Francisco's Blackhawk nightclub and gained great popularity touring college campuses, releasing a series of albums with such titles as Jazz at Oberlin, Jazz Goes to College, and Jazz Goes to Junior College.

By 1958, after a handful of different drummers and bassists, the "Classic Quartet" — so-called because it remained as such virtually consistently until the group dissolved — had been assembled; consisting of Brubeck, Desmond, Joe Morello on drums, and Eugene Wright on bass^[1]. In 1959, the Dave Brubeck Quartet released Time Out, an album their label was enthusiastic about but nonetheless hesitant to release. The album contained all original compositions, almost none of which were in common time. Nonetheless, on the strength of these unusual time signatures (the album included "Take Five", "Blue Rondo à la Turk", and "Pick Up Sticks"), it quickly went platinum. The quartet followed up its success with several more albums in the same vein, including Time Further Out (1961), Countdown: Time in Outer Space, Time Changes, and Time In. These albums were also known for using contemporary paintings as cover art, featuring the work of Neil Fujita on Time Out, Joan Miró on Time Further Out, Franz Kline on Time in Outer Space, and Sam Francis on Time Changes. No artist work, however, was featured on the cover of Time In. A high point for the group was their classic 1963 live album At Carnegie Hall, described by critic Richard Palmer as "arguably Dave Brubeck's greatest concert".

The Dave Brubeck Quartet broke up in 1967, except for a 25th anniversary reunion in 1976^[1].

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有在聽爵士樂的人一定對於 Dave Brubeck 不陌生
他就是那種已經在歷史課本出現 但是卻還沒有死的老妖怪
用老妖怪來形容他一點都不為過
人都站不穩了 起個身都要人扶 彈起琴卻....就是啞口無言

這次學校的Jazz Department邀請他來上課
其實基本上就是來表演 說說他以前跟 Parker等人的事情
讓我們長長見識

這次他過來一個禮拜
因為都是上課時間 除了one O'clock的人比較會跟他接觸到外
我們也沒時間找到他
不過住我家後面的鄰居卻很幸運在他等車的時候 跟他說到話 (真好 )
這一次他會在學校演出兩場
我當然是已經把票給搶過來了

我偷偷放上來的錄音是 他上完課順便小小的演一下
總共有四首

第一首有點像熱身 要不然就是我還沒反應過來
只覺得四老妖太強 即興怎麼可以這麼簡單又好聽
Sax一進來的聲音就把我嚇到(錄音聽起來不會嚇人)
Bass 即興的 Melody 顛覆我對Bass的看法
鼓手跟旋律跟的超緊 timing 跟大小聲恰到好處
四個人就真的在玩音樂 好像隨便拿樂器就可以合奏一樣

沒想到越後面越是有趣啊
第二首 第三首 Dave Brubeck的 Prelude, interlude 還有 postlude
好聽級了
尤其是第三首prelude一接進來的對比好強烈 整個人都麻掉
而且到了中間 還有類似fugue的即興 (應該是有先寫好一些主題啦)
我聽到人都要哭了 T_T

第三首演奏完後
大家太熱情一直拍手
他們就乾脆學學 rocker 在大家拍手的時候 power chord就給他彈進來
最後一首
sax就是電吉他
double bass 變成了電Bass
Dave 跟 鼓手也變成 rocker
而且還不只是Rocker
是流著 Jazz blood 的Rocker啊~~!

啊~~~我那天聽完後太爽 一直在外面大吼大叫
連寫個感想都像流水帳一樣
大家就別看這篇
趕快去聽我們偷錄音樂吧..哈哈