In the 1950s and '60s, few American jazz artists were as influential, and fewer still were as popular, as Dave Brubeck. At a time when the cooler sounds of West Coast jazz began to dominate the public face of the music, Brubeck proved there was an audience for the style far beyond the confines of the in-crowd, and with his emphasis on unusual time signatures and adventurous tonalities, Brubeck showed that ambitious and challenging music could still be accessible . . .
. . . with the popularization of bossa nova in the early '60s, practically every recording artist had to have at least one bossa nova album. This effort by the Dave Brubeck Quartet is better than most due to the high quality of the compositions, of which the title cut is best-known. The date's two standards ("This Can't Be Love" and "Trolley Song") also fare well on this upbeat session . . .


THE DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET

Bossa Nova USA     1963


- CD
- 320Kbps


Tracks 1 to 10    The Original Album
Tracks 11 to 17   Bonus Tracks


Dave Brubeck ΓÇô piano
Paul Desmond ΓÇô alto saxophone
Eugene Wright ΓÇô bass
Joe Morello ΓÇô drums


Recorded in January, July, October 1962
Released 1963