Dave Brubeck Octets

Notes

Brubeck experimented with the jazz octet format early on, but it was never commercially successful. These tracks were recorded between 1946 and 1950, but released in 1956 once the DB Quartet was popular.

Label and catalogue number

• Fantasy 3239 (1948-1950, red vinyl)
• Fantasy 4019 (Volume 1, red vinyl EP, tracks 9,10,11 only)
• Fantasy OJCCD-101-2 (CD reissue)

Personnel

• Dave Brubeck (piano)
• Paul Desmond (alto sax)
• Dave van Kriedt (tenor sax)
• Bob Collins (baritone sax)
• Dick Collins (trumpet)
• William O Smith (clarinet)
• Jack Weeks (bass)
• Cal Tjader (drums)
• Jimmy Lyons (narrator, track 9)

Tracks

• The Way You Look Tonight (Kern-Fields) 2'05"
• Love Walked In (Gershwin-Gershwin) 2'45"
• What Is This Thing Called Love (Porter) 2'40"
• September In The Rain (Dubin-Warren) 2'55"
• Prelude (VanKreidt) 2'15"
• Fugue On Bop Themes (VanKreidt) 2'45"
• Let's Fall In Love (Arlen-Koehler) 2'22"
• IPCA (Smith) 2'45"
• How High The Moon (Hamilton-Lewis) 7'28"
• Serenades Suite (VanKreidt) 4'30"
• Playland-At-The-Beach (Brubeck) 1'27"
• Prisoner's Song (Massey) 1'04"
• Schizophrenic Scherzo (Smith) 2'15"
• Rondo (Brubeck) 1'30"
• I Hear A Rhapsody (Fragos-Baker-Bard-Gasparre) 2'10"
• You Go To My Head (Coots-Gillespie) 2'54"
• Laura (Raskin-Mercer) 2'05"
• Closing Theme (Brubeck) 0'30"