Jazz at the College of the Pacific explained

Jazz at the College of the Pacific
Type:live
Artist:Dave Brubeck Quartet
Cover:Jazz atcollege.jpg
Released:Between January and September 1954[1]
Recorded:December 14, 1953
College of the Pacific, Stockton
Genre:Jazz
Length:40:23
Label:Fantasy
F 3223

Jazz at the College of the Pacific is a live album by Dave Brubeck Quartet. It was recorded and released in December 1953 on Fantasy Records as F 3223. The cover was designed by Ed Colker and drawn by Arnold Roth. Critic Nat Hentoff wrote in Down Beat magazine that the album "ranks with the Oberlin and Storyville sets as the best of Brubeck on record".[2]

Fantasy released seven additional performances from this concert in 2002 on the album Jazz at the College of the Pacific, Vol. 2.

Track listing

  1. "All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) 9:12
  2. "Laura" (David Raksin, Johnny Mercer) 3:12
  3. "Lullaby in Rhythm" (Walter Hirsch, Benny Goodman) 7:25
  4. "I'll Never Smile Again" (Ruth Lowe) 5:28
  5. "I Remember You" (Victor Schertzinger, Johnny Mercer) 9:12
  6. "For All We Know" (J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis) 5:52

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=LCEEAAAAMBAJ&dq=brubeck+pacific+1954&pg=PA54 Billboard Nov 13, 1954
  2. CD back cover excerpt