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Dave Brubeck Quartet Featuring Jimmy Rushing - Brubeck & Rushing (1998)

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Music, Jazz / Vocal Jazz, Blues, Instrumental, Lossless

TRACKLIST
1. There’ll Be Some Changes Made Higgins, Overstreet 2:10
2. My Melancholy Baby Burnett, Norton, Watson 4:01
3. Blues in the Dark Basie, Rushing 4:42
4. I Never Knew (I Could Love Anyone Like I’m Loving You) (Egan, Marsh, Pitts) 2:32
5. Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Brooks, Razaf, Waller, Waller) 3:25
6. Evenin’ (Parish, White) 4:14
7. All by Myself (Berlin) 2:34
8. River, Stay ‘Way from My Door (Dixon, Woods) 4:26
9. You Can Depend on Me (Carpenter, Dunlap, Dunlape) 3:33
10. Am I Blue? (Akst, Clarke) 2:54
11. Shine on Harvest Moon (Bayes, Norworth) 2:10

Performers:
Dave Brubeck (piano)
Paul Desmond (alto sx)
Gene Wright (bass)
Joe Morello (drums.)
Featuring:
Jimmy Rushing (vocal)

An odd pairing on a couple of counts. First, there's the discrepancy between the innate swing of Jimmy Rushing's phrasing and Brubeck's notorious stiffness. (In one off-kilter moment, the singer exclaims "tell the truth, man... play it, home!" behind the pianist's ultraterse, bluesless, soft-pedaled solo on "Blues in the Dark.") Second, there's Rushing's enormous, rough-textured voice juxtaposed against the sweet, soft, lithe alto sax counterlines of Paul Desmond. It's the latter relationship that carries this 1960 session, though to be fair Brubeck rises to the occasion too, his spare playing--along with the unimpeachable bed created by associates Gene Wright, on bass, and Joe Morello, on drums--providing an exquisite showcase for the Basie belter. Don't miss Rushing slightly rolling his r's on "Evenin'"--the exquisite diction of blues aristocracy! --John Corbett