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Jazz Casual: Dave Brubeck (1995)
Rating:
Starring: Ralph J. Gleason
Director:
Category: Music
Studio: Rhino
Subtitles:
Length:
23 mins

 
 

 

Leader of the West Coast Cool Jazz

When Ralph J. Gleason asked Dave Brubeck to appear on his television series Jazz Casual, in 1961, it was only natural; not only was the Dave Brubeck Quartet one of the most popular jazz combos in the world at that time, and a favorite at clubs in San Francisco, but both Dave Brubeck and his featured alto sax player Paul Desmond were Bay Area natives (Brubeck was born in Concord, Desmond in Berkeley).

This episode features the quartet performing Paul Desmond's 1961 jazz classic "Take Five." This lineup of the quartet, with Brubeck on piano, Desmond on alto sax, "Senator" Eugene Wright on bass, and Joe Morello on drums, was considered by many, including Gleason and Brubeck, himself, to be the best of the Brubeck Quartet lineups to date.

The cover photo on this volume, by Jerry Stoll, is a rare treat in and of itself. As Jazz Casual was recorded and mixed "live" to videotape, the noise of a still camera was discouraged. So this photo comes from the only roll of still photograph film of a Jazz Casual production set known to exist!