Word: brubecks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Desmond (Fantasy). Alto Saxophonist Paul Desmond, who is usually heard with Dave Brubeck (TIME, Nov. 8), teams up with two other combos on this plaintive and appealing disk. On one side, he infuses his pure, sensitive tones into a handsome vocal fabric (by the Bill Bates Singers). On the other is a quintet, including amiable Trumpeter Dick Collins and Tenor Saxophonist Dave Van Kriedt, who composed such originals as a prelude (Baroque) and fugue (But Happy...
Other new pop records: Brubeck Time (Columbia LP). The Dave Brubeck Quartet in a rare, formal studio recording. Saxophonist Paul Desmond is in top form in the tender Audrey, and Pianist Brubeck delivers an angry, driving solo in Stomping for Mili,* while that fine rhythm section sizzles in the background...
...Bridgeport, Conn, police last week banned teen-age rock-'n'-roll dance parties because the dancers "got out of hand." *Named, respectively, in honor of Cinemac tress Audrey Hepburn, af whose mere mention Saxophonist Desmond swoons, and Photogra pher Gjon Mili, who made a movie about the Brubeck Quartet. The title "Brubeck Time" commemorates TIME'S cove story...
...John Lewis' use of the conga drum was less novel perhaps-both it was "new sound" to many and very well received. For Alan Miller at the piano the concert was a debut, but his solo in Honeysuckle Rose was easily the highpoint of the afternoon. He had the Brubeck wit, slipping in tunes even from Country Gardens, but a general style very much...
...will start with some definitions, just as Dave Brubeck and his boys start with a theme," began Dr. Jonas, who knows his combos as well as his complexes. "Then we'll improvise and take it from there...