Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond / Reunion

Label: Fantasy
Year: 1957
Released on LP: Yes
Released on CD: Yes

Tracks

1. Strolling
2. Shouts
3. Prelude
4. Divertimento
5. Chorale
6. Leo's Place
7. Darien Mode
8. Pieta

Personnel

Dave Brubeck (piano)
Paul Desmond (alto sax)
Dave Van Kriedt (tenor sax)
Joe Morello (drums)
Norman Bates (bass)
Notes

All compositions by Dave Van Kriedt.

Reviews

All Music Guide – Review – copyright

Tenor-saxophonist Dave Van Kreidt, a former member of Dave Brubeck's octet in the late '40s, had a reunion with the pianist, altoist Paul Desmond and bassist Bob Bates for this unusual session; Brubeck's new drummer Joe Morello made the group a quintet. Van Kreidt supplied all of the compositions (some of which are fairly complex), giving this set a sound very much different than the usual Brubeck Quartet outing. Interesting if not essential classical-influenced music that predates the Third Stream movement.

Scott Yanow

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