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Dave Brubeck Octet

Studio album by

Dave Brubeck Octet

Released

1956

Recorded

1946–1950

Genre

Jazz

Length

47:24

Label

Fantasy

Dave Brubeck Octet chronology

Brubeck Trio with Cal Tjader, Volume 2
(1949)

Dave Brubeck Octet
(1956)

The Dave Brubeck Quartet
(1952)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[2]

The Dave Brubeck Octet is a jazz album released by The Dave Brubeck Octet in 1956. It compiles the octet's complete recorded output made between 1946 and 1950, which was originally released in other forms. The artwork was credited to Arnold Roth.

Background

Jack Sheedy, the owner of a San Francisco–based record label called Coronet, was talked into making the first recording of an octet and a trio featuring Brubeck. But Sheedy was unable to pay his bills and in 1949 turned his masters over to his record stamping company, the Circle Record Company, owned by Max and Sol Weiss. The Weiss brothers soon changed the name of their business to Fantasy Records.^[3]

The first 10 songs on the compilation were recorded between 1946 and 1948 and were released starting in 1950 by Fantasy under the title Old Sounds From San Francisco, first as two EPs then as a single 10-inch LP. The final eight tracks were recorded in 1950 and first released on a 10-inch LP in 1956 under the title Distinctive Rhythm Instrumentals. Later in 1956, Fantasy compiled the tracks from Old Sounds From San Francisco and Distinctive Rhythm Instrumentals and issued the Dave Brubeck Octet album as a 12-inch LP.^[4]

Fantasy re-issued the Distinctive Rhythm Instrumentals album in its original 10-inch red vinyl format for Record Store Day 2012.^[5]

Track listing

Source: ^[6]

The Way You Look Tonight (Dorothy Fields & Jerome Kern) 3:00
Love Walked In (George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin) 2:38
What Is This Thing Called Love? (Cole Porter) 2:42
September in the Rain (Al Dubin & Harry Warren) 2:52
Prelude (Dave VanKriedt) 2:12
Fugue on Bop Themes (Dave VanKriedt) 2:43
Let's Fall in Love (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler & Cole Porter) 2:23
Ipca (William O. Smith) 2:42
How High the Moon (Nancy Hamilton & Morgan Lewis) 6:52
Serenade Suite (Dave VanKriedt) 4:35
Playland at the Beach (Dave Brubeck) 1:30
The Prisoner's Song (Guy Massey) 1:05
Schizophrenic Scherzo (William O. Smith) 2:14
Rondo (Dave Brubeck) 1:33
I Hear a Rhapsody (Jack Baker, George Fragos & Dick Gasparre) 2:10
You Go To My Head (J. Fred Coots & Haven Gillespie) 4:02
Laura (Johnny Mercer & David Raksin) 2:11
Closing Theme (Dave Brubeck) 0:33

Personnel

Dave Brubeck – piano
Paul Desmond – alto saxophone
Jack Weeks – bass
Cal Tjader – drums
William O. Smith – clarinet & baritone saxophone
Bob Collins – trombone
Dick Collins – trumpet
David Van Kriedt – tenor saxophone

References

^ Allmusic review
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Ted Gioia, "Dave Brubeck and Modern Jazz in San Francisco," West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California 1945–1960, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1998 (reprint of 1992 edition), pp. 63-64.
^ "Dave Brubeck Octet". DaveBrubeckJazz.com. Retrieved October 31, 2015.
^ "Dave Brubeck Octet: Distinctive Rhythm Instrumentals". RecordStoreDay.com. Retrieved October 31, 2015.
^ "The Dave Brubeck Octet". AllMusic, Netaktion LLC. Retrieved June 5, 2021.

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Solo albums	Brubeck Plays Brubeck (1956) Plays and Plays and... (1957) Just You, Just Me (1994) A Dave Brubeck Christmas (1996) One Alone (2000)
As leader	Dave Brubeck Octet (1950) Dave Brubeck and Jay & Kai at Newport (1956) Brubeck à la mode (1960) Take Five Live (with Carmen McRae, 1961) The Real Ambassadors (with Louis Armstrong, 1962) Jazz Impressions of New York (1964) Time In (1966) Bravo! Brubeck! (1967) Jackpot! (1968) Two Generations of Brubeck (1973) Brother, the Great Spirit Made Us All (1974) 1975: The Duets (with Paul Desmond, 1975) All the Things We Are (1976) In Their Own Sweet Way (1995) Young Lions & Old Tigers (1995) To Hope! A Celebration (1996) The 40th Anniversary Tour of the U.K. (1998)
Dave Brubeck Quartet	The Dave Brubeck Quartet (1952) Jazz at Oberlin (1953) Jazz at the College of the Pacific (1953) Jazz Goes to College (1954) Brubeck Time (1955) Jazz: Red Hot and Cool (1955) Jazz Impressions of the U.S.A. (1956) Dave Digs Disney (1957) The Dave Brubeck Quartet in Europe (1958) Jazz Impressions of Eurasia (1958) Newport 1958 (1958) Gone with the Wind (1959) Time Out (1959) Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein (1960) Brubeck and Rushing (with Jimmy Rushing, 1960) Tonight Only! (with Carmen McRae, 1960) Brandenburg Gate: Revisited (1961) Time Further Out (1961) Brubeck in Amsterdam (1962) Countdown—Time in Outer Space (1962) Bossa Nova U.S.A. (1963) At Carnegie Hall (1963) Jazz Impressions of Japan (1964) Time Changes (1964) Dave Brubeck in Berlin (1964) Angel Eyes (1965) My Favorite Things (1965) Anything Goes! (1966) Buried Treasures (1967) The Last Time We Saw Paris (1967) 25th Anniversary Reunion (1977) Tritonis (1980) Paper Moon (1982) The Great Concerts (1988) So What's New? (1998) The Crossing (2000) Park Avenue South (2002) London Flat, London Sharp (2005)
With Gerry Mulligan	Live at the Berlin Philharmonie (1970) The Last Set at Newport (1971) We're All Together Again for the First Time (1973)
Compositions	"In Your Own Sweet Way" "Blue Rondo à la Turk" "Unsquare Dance"
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