One moment worth years (Dave Brubeck) (LP 375 - 380)

Dave Brubeck Countdown: Time In Outer Space (CD, CBS/Sony Music, 19) ***
Dave Brubeck Time Changes (CD, CBS/Sony Music, 19) **
Dave Brubeck Time In (CD, CBS/Sony Music, 19) ***
Dave Brubeck Jazz: Red Hot and Cool (CD, Avid Jazz, 19) ****
Dave Brubeck Newport 1958 (CD, Avid Jazz, 19) ***
Dave Brubeck Jazz Goes To Junior College (CD, Avid Jazz, 19) ***


Genre: Cool Jazz 

Places I remember: HMV (various in England)

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Perdido (from Newport 1958)




Gear costume:  Lover (from Jazz:Red Hot and Cool) 

Active compensatory factors: This penultimate wrap up of Brubeck releases that I have on CD takes in two multi-packs: the Original Classic Album series (I've already written about Time Out and Time Further Out) and the Three Classic Albums Plus set (pictured right).

The results are varied - from the worst (Time Changes is the quartet with orchestra and it's mainly the orchestra that takes centre stage) to the best (Jazz: Red Hot and Cool).

No doubt the Red Hot refers to the babe on the cover and the Cool is Dave but this live set is smoking!

Where do they all belong? One more edition of the multi-packs to come with a bumper crop of Brubeck releases.