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Product Details:
Audio CD Release Date:
August 07, 2007
Studio:
Telarc
Number Of Discs:
1
Average Customer Rating:
based on 18 reviews
Description:
In his prime, Dave Brubeck was never known for his delicacy as a pianist--quite the opposite. But it's that quality that defines "Indian Summer," a collection of lightly nuanced ballads featuring him alone at his instrument, confronting old age at 86. With its slow-to-leisurely tempos and plainspoken style, this 72-minute effort is best heard in small sections. But there's no denying the emotion at the heart of tunes like "September Song," "I'm Alone," and the title song, or the charm of the subtle stride and blues touches he applies to classics, including "Memories of You" and "Georgia on My Mind." --Lloyd Sachs
Track Listing:
1.
You'll Never Know - Dave Brubeck, Gordon, Mack
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I'm Alone - Dave Brubeck, Hammerstein, Oscar
3.
Autumn in Our Town - Dave Brubeck, Brubeck, Iola
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So Lonely - Dave Brubeck, Brubeck, Iola
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I'm Afraid the Masquerade Is Over - Dave Brubeck, Magidson, Herbert
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I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You - Dave Brubeck, Crosby, Bing
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Pacific Hail - Dave Brubeck, Winston, Lois Warne
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September Song - Dave Brubeck, Anderson, Maxwell
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Summer Song - Dave Brubeck, Brubeck, Iola
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Thank You - Dave Brubeck, Brubeck, Dave
11.
Georgia on My Mind - Dave Brubeck, Carmichael, Hoagy
12.
Spring Is Here - Dave Brubeck, Hart, Lorenz
13.
Sweet Lorraine - Dave Brubeck, Burwell, Carter
14.
Memories of You - Dave Brubeck, Razaf, Andy
15.
This Love of Mine - Dave Brubeck, Parker, Sol
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Indian Summer - Dave Brubeck, Herbert, Victor
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... the hope remains for yet another round of falling leaves.Aug 22, 2008 If ever you needed proof that music can be a fountain of youth, here it is. Brubeck is in his mid-80s and still recording gems like this. 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. 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. 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. And another. *****
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Subtle Ivory RuminationsJan 08, 2008 One might say this CD encapsulates the life of a classically trained Jazz pianist. However, shades of Art Tatum, Scott Joplin, Fats Waller and yes Darius Milhaud come to light here. If you are seeking fireworks and presto this CD is not for you. That does not mean this music isn't without dynamics--it has--but the potent is in the subtlety. Listen.
Take a listen to track three, "Autumn in Our Town" a beautifully expressed and crafted Indian Summer piano vignette by Dave Brubeck. This track is a definitive tone poem of the title.
Remember Paul Desmond Pure Desmond and his sweet signatory embouchure profiling his tone? Well the piano as played here by Dave Brubeck atavistically ordains resemblance. A truly beautiful CD. A must have CD if you enjoy piano.
The imbecilic rubes might assign a moniker of smooth Jazz or the like. This is not the case. This CD is an etude, an excursion of the soul.
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BrubeckJan 01, 2008 A great Dave Brubeck CD. I have followed him from the 60's. This is a nice mellow CD.
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sweet and bittersweet. ghosts in the chordsNov 26, 2007
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. Sweet and Bittersweet, full of memories, even ghosts of autumns past. Elegaic. He uses more slow dark chords on these standards than I've ever heard from him in his more Pop albums. 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. It is between wrong note and really clever. Very well recorded solos so these chords hang in the frosty autumn air. Slow tempos.
Dave Brubeck has outlived them all. 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. Clean living, I guess. While his contemporaries were shooting drugs and/or guzzling booze, Brubeck was drinking milk and going home early to his wife of many years. Raising a family. 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. And the ghosts are just beyond reach. Brubecks new CD is really thoughful and late night.
Elevator music, huh?? 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
Wow! Absolutly BeautifulNov 06, 2007 I've been a Brubeck fan for a lot of years. I was hooked when I got a copy of "Jazz at Oberlin"... still one of my favorites. But this album is different... and it is absolutly beautiful. This is Brubeck in a very pensive, reflective mood. 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. The music is laid-back and the melodies and chords structures are a delight. If you want to relax quitely with some mello jazz... this is the album.
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