DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET

DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET - DEBUT IN THE NETHERLANDS 1958 - CD

DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET - DEBUT IN THE NETHERLANDS 1958 - CD
DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET - DEBUT IN THE NETHERLANDS 1958 - CD
DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET - DEBUT IN THE NETHERLANDS 1958 - CD
DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET - DEBUT IN THE NETHERLANDS 1958 - CD
DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET - DEBUT IN THE NETHERLANDS 1958 - CD
DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET - DEBUT IN THE NETHERLANDS 1958 - CD
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DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET - DEBUT IN THE NETHERLANDS 1958 - CD
DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET - DEBUT IN THE NETHERLANDS 1958 - CD
DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET - DEBUT IN THE NETHERLANDS 1958 - CD
DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET - DEBUT IN THE NETHERLANDS 1958 - CD
DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET - DEBUT IN THE NETHERLANDS 1958 - CD
DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET - DEBUT IN THE NETHERLANDS 1958 - CD

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DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET

DEBUT IN THE NETHERLANDS 1958

17,00€12,00€

CD 1

  1. Two Part Contention
  2. Someday My Prince Will Come
  3. These Foolish Things

CD 2

  1. One Moment Worth Years
  2. For All We Know
  3. Watusi Drums
  4. The Wright Groove
  5. The "Duke"
  6. Take the "A" Train (incomplete)

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Europe, here we come!

With the support of the American State Department, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, including new members Joe Morello and Eugene Wright, began a major tour of Europe early in 1958. Their first concert in the Netherlands was held on 26 February in the legendary Concertgebouw Hall in Amsterdam, usually reserved for performances of classical music. Since 1951 and the collaboration between Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond, the band had gained a stunning reputation. In 1954, Dave Brubeck was featured on the cover of Time magazine. Rumor has it that Duke Ellington knocked on Brubeck’s hotel door to congratulate him. Brubeck is said to have responded, “It should have been you.” He dedicated one of his most famous pieces, “The Duke”, included on this album, to his fellow pianist.

That winter evening of 1958, the four American musicians, all in their late thirties, took the stage of the Concertgebouw.

Picture the packed auditorium murmuring expectantly, and four musicians overcome with stage fright yet eager to perform. After some timid applause, Desmond kicked off with the melancholy, sophisticated theme of “Two Part Contention”. The piano came in, sounding out a counter-melody that revealed Brubeck’s classical training and knowledge of counterpoint, acquired when he studied under Milhaud and Schoenberg. He had an inventiveness that was not only melodic but also rhythmic, and he knew how to win over an audience. This was followed by a Disney piece, “Someday, My Prince Will Come” introduced by the piano, three years before the great Miles Davis brought out his eponymous album. They continued with a 1930s standard, “These Foolish Things”, by Jack Strachey, a song that had helped make Ella Fitzgerald famous. Paul led the show in his flowing, ethereal style, with sporadic brassy, dissonant contrasts, proving – if proof were needed – his consummate skills in harmonic phrasing. The saxophone then announced the theme of “One Moment Worth Years”. Eugene, who liked to be called “the Senator”, seemed to lead the private dialogue with an unseen hand, dexterous and sensitive. In the same vein, they led on with “For All We Know” – to thunderous applause. It was now Joe’s turn to take the limelight. When he played “Watusi Drums”, the audience discovered an exceptional drummer who had started out as a virtuoso violinist: fifteen years previously, he had been playing Mendelssohn’s Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. After hearing Jascha Heifetz, he decided he could never reach the maestro’s heights and switched to drums. The band went on to play “The Wright Groove”, a short piece written by Eugene. The concert concluded with “The Duke”, a tribute to Ellington, and then a superb rendition of “Take the A-Train”, a 1940s classic and the hallmark piece of Ellington’s orchestra, played here in a whirlwind of energy and innovative rhythms.

Sadly, the original tape comes to a halt before the end of this piece could be recorded. Nevertheless, we have chosen to retain the surviving part to bear witness to the groundbreaking creativity then bubbling under the surface in this exceptional quartet’s timeless art.

The concert inaugurated a triumphant career in Europe. It announced, loud and clear, the communicative enthusiasm that was the lasting hallmark of these four exceptional musicians.


Dave Brubeck, Piano
Paul Desmond, Saxophone
Eugene Wright, Bass
Joe Morello, Drums



Recorded at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands on 26.II.1958
MONO ℗ 1958 VARA

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DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET

DEBUT IN THE NETHERLANDS 1958

DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET

DEBUT IN THE NETHERLANDS 1958

The story of this discovery

"The discovery of the original reel tape of this concert in the Dutch archives was completely fortuitous: we were going to the Netherlands to listen to some recordings by Msistlav Rostropovich which had unfortunately turned out to be unusable. A television crew present that day asked if we could film the basements where the thousands of analog tapes were stored. It is by looking at one of the shelves in particular that we read the name of Brubeck on the edge of the box! We went back to the studio and put the tape on our player. The first notes of Paul Desmond in "Two-Part Contention" invaded the studio like the smiles on our faces..."

Frédéric D'ORIA-NICOLAS
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