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And another. Although Indian Summer could well serve as a classic close to a storied career, the hope remains for yet another round of these falling leaves. And another. If ever you needed proof that music can be a fountain of youth, here it is. ***** Even though a solo piano performance might conjure connotations of cocktails and crackers, Brubeck focuses on the timelessness of these tunes, evoking imagery well beyond the songs' original lyrics. Brubeck is in his mid-80s and still recording gems like this. The titles alone set the mood: "You'll Never Know." "Autumn in Our Town." "September Song." "Georgia on My Mind." "Memories of You." And in his typical fashion, Brubeck eschews the flash for the jazz essence of each tune.
The imbecilic rubes might assign a moniker of smooth Jazz or the like. That does not mean this music isn't without dynamics--it has--but the potent is in the subtlety. A truly beautiful CD. This track is a definitive tone poem of the title.Remember Paul Desmond Pure Desmond and his sweet signatory embouchure profiling his tone.
One might say this CD encapsulates the life of a classically trained Jazz pianist. This is not the case. A must have CD if you enjoy piano. However, shades of Art Tatum, Scott Joplin, Fats Waller and yes Darius Milhaud come to light here.
Well the piano as played here by Dave Brubeck atavistically ordains resemblance. This CD is an etude, an excursion of the soul. If you are seeking fireworks and presto this CD is not for you. Listen.Take a listen to track three, "Autumn in Our Town" a beautifully expressed and crafted Indian Summer piano vignette by Dave Brubeck.
This is a nice mellow CD. A great Dave Brubeck CD. I have followed him from the 60's.
Elegaic. Clean living, I guess. Brubecks new CD is really thoughful and late night. Very personal Solo piano renditions of standards, the jacket shows all, very very autumnal music from a man well in to the autumn of his life. Elevator music, huh. He was a contemporary of Cool Jazzmen Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Bill Evans, Gerry Mulligan, not to mention his wonderful alto sax man Paul Desmond, etc. He has spent more time agonizing over each note and chord he plays than I have ever heard.paritularly good are the Impressionistic September Song, and Spring is Here, and the dark So Lonely.resonates with listeners who feel that Jazz should be melodic, original and thoughtful need not be frenetic or noisy.highly recommended
Sounds almost like Thelonious Monk in places, minors, diminished minor 7ths, 9ths, 13th's, whatever, he hangs these dark chords out these and sometimes he resolves them into the majors they were written in and sometimes he doesn't. And the ghosts are just beyond reach. So he's still with us and to my ear has done one of the most involving albums I've heard from him in more than a decade.It is as if he was remembering his whole life. It is between wrong note and really clever. Raising a family.
Sweet and Bittersweet, full of memories, even ghosts of autumns past. While his contemporaries were shooting drugs and/or guzzling booze, Brubeck was drinking milk and going home early to his wife of many years. Slow tempos.Dave Brubeck has outlived them all. He uses more slow dark chords on these standards than I've ever heard from him in his more Pop albums. Very well recorded solos so these chords hang in the frosty autumn air.
If you want to relax quitely with some mello jazz. The music is laid-back and the melodies and chords structures are a delight. When you listen to this album you get a sense of serenity that you're coomfortably sitting in a room listening to one of the great jazz pianists of our time.
I was hooked when I got a copy of "Jazz at Oberlin". and it is absolutly beautiful. I've been a Brubeck fan for a lot of years.
This is Brubeck in a very pensive, reflective mood. this is the album. still one of my favorites.
But this album is different.
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