Time Signatures: A Career Retrospective
Douban
Overview
With material from 1946 to 1991, this handsome box set reveals the enormous breadth of Brubeck's interests, accomplishments, and collaborations. There are tracks, for example, with Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Rushing, Gerry Mulligan, and Carmen McRae. There's even a duo with Charles Mingus. Also here is the full range of Brubeck's studied structures, involved harmonies, and elements unusual to jazz, including expansive time signatures and the use of fugue form and 12-tone theory. Included, of course, are such signature hits as "Blue Rondo a la Turk" and "Take Five." Brubeck came up playing hillbilly, swing, and Dixieland, and at college studied modern composition. All of that--and little constraint--informed his complex, idiosyncratic style. The package includes an 80-page booklet with his biography, rare photographs, and descriptions of every track. --Peter Monaghan
Tracks
1.1 Curtain Music (Closing Theme)
1.2 Indiana
1.3 Body and Soul
1.4 Undecided
1.5 The Way You Look Tonight
1.6 Look for the Silver Lining
1.7 Over the Rainbow
1.8 Perdido
1.9 Le Souk
1.10 Stompin' for Mili
1.11 The Duke
1.12 Two-Part Contention
1.13 In Your Own Sweet Way
1.14 History of a Boy Scout (We Crossed the Rhine)
1.15 Some Day My Prince Will Come
2.1 Tangerine
2.2 Jump for Joy
2.3 The Golden Horn
2.4 Marble Arch
2.5 Georgia on My Mind
2.6 Three to Get Ready
2.7 Blue Rondo a la Turk
2.8 Strange Meadowlark
2.9 Take Five
2.10 Darktown Strutter's Ball
2.11 Offshoot
2.12 There'll Be Some Changes Made
3.1 Allegro Blues
3.2 Somewhere
3.3 Weep No More
3.4 Charles Matthew Hallelujah
3.5 Unsquare Dance
3.6 Why Phillis
3.7 Kathy's Waltz
3.8 Travellin' Blues
3.9 Summer Song
3.10 The Real Ambassador
3.11 Non-Sectarian Blues
3.12 Bossa Nova U.S.A.
3.13 It's a Raggy Waltz
3.14 The World's Fair
3.15 Fujiyama
3.16 Upstage Rumba
3.17 Little Man With a Candy Cigar
3.18 My Favorite Things
3.19 Lost Waltz
4.1 I Get a Kick Out of You
4.2 Koto Song
4.3 La Paloma Azul (The Blue Dove)
4.4 Estrellita (Little Star)
4.5 Forty Days
4.6 Sapito
4.7 Recuerdo
4.8 St. Louis Blues
4.9 Mr. Broadway
4.10 Caravan
4.11 Tritonis
4.12 Benjamin
4.13 Stardust