Dave Brubeck

PERSONNEL:

DAVE BRUBECK, piano
PAUL DESMOND, alto sax
RON CROTTY,  BOB BATES, bass
JOE DODGE, LLOYD DAVIS, drums

Live at the Storyville club in Boston, 1954
(except bonus tracks, which were recorded in 1952, same location).

TRACKS:

01. On The Alamo
02. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
03. Gone With The Wind
04. Back Bay Blues
05. Crazy Chris
06. Here Lies Love
07. When You're Smiling
08. Give A Little Whistle (*)
09. Oh, Lady Be Good (*)
10. You Go To My Head (*)
11. Over The Rainbow (*)

(*) Bonus Tracks

About these recordings, Dave Brubeck admitted that the quartet sounds wonderful. "In fact," said Dave, "I think that On the Alamo is the greatest thing I've put on record so far." Paul Desmond once said about him: "When Dave is playing at his best, it's a profoundly moving thing to experience, emotionally, and intellectually. It's completely free, live improvisation in which you can find all the qualities about music-the vigor and force of simple jazz, the harmonic complexities of Bartok and Milhaud, Bach and, at times, the lyric romanticism of Rachmaninoff."