Jazz Goes to College is a 1954 album documenting the North American college tour of The Dave Brubeck Quartet. Joining Brubeck are Paul Desmond, Bob Bates and Joe Dodge, whose support All Music calls "uniformly flawless" in a "perfect representation" of the quartet's early work.1 The album was re-released on CD and cassette under the Columbia imprint in 1991 and on CD by Sony International in 2000.
History
The college tour, in which the group crossed the country visiting major universities and junior colleges, was conceived by Brubeck's wife Iola as a way to introduce jazz to a new audience.2 Brubeck described encountering resistance at the colleges, some of which were reluctant to allow him to perform, but found following initial forays that the quartet was in much demand.2 As the quartet traveled across the country, he told the Jazz Education Journal, they would play as many as 90 colleges in a four month period.2
Following the album's release, the quartet was featured on the cover of Time Magazine, with the accompanying article describing Brubeck as "the most exciting new jazz artist at work today".3 According to a 1972 Time article, the album enjoyed widespread popularity among college students in the 1950s and early 1960s.4
A follow-up album documenting other parts of the tour, Jazz Goes to Junior College, was released in 1957.
Track listing
Location of recording, where known, included in parentheses following composer.
- "Balcony Rock" (Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond) (University of Michigan) – 11:55
- "Out of Nowhere" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) (University of Cincinnati) – 8:04
- "Le Souk" (Brubeck, Desmond) (Oberlin College, Ohio) – 4:36
- "Take the 'A' Train" (Billy Strayhorn) – 6:11
- "The Song Is You" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 5:38
- "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) – 8:47
- "I Want to be Happy" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) – 6:36
Personnel
References
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Dave Brubeck Octet (1950) • Jazz at Oberlin (1953) • Jazz at the College of the Pacific (1953) • Jazz Goes to College (1954) • Jazz: Red Hot and Cool (1955) • Brubeck Plays Brubeck (1956) • Jazz Impressions of the USA (1956) • Dave Digs Disney (1957) • Jazz Impressions of Eurasia (1958) • Newport 1958 • Gone With the Wind (1959) • Time Out (1959) • Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein (1960) • Brubeck and Rushing (1960) • Time Further Out (1961) • The Real Ambassadors (1962) • Countdown-Time in Outer Space (1962) • At Carnegie Hall (1963) • Time Changes (1963) • Jazz Impressions of Japan (1964) • Jazz Impressions of New York (1964) • Angel Eyes (1965) • My Favorite Things (1965) • Dave Brubeck's Greatest Hits (1966) • Time In (1966) • Anything Goes (1966) • Bravo! Brubeck! (1967) • The Last Time We Saw Paris (1967) • Compadres (1968) • Blues Roots (1969) • Live at the Berlin Philharmonie (1970) • The Last Set at Newport (1971) • We're All Together Again for the First Time (1973) • Two Generations of Brubeck (1973) • Brubeck & Desmond 1975: the Duets • DBQ 25th Anniversary Reunion (1976) • The New Brubeck Quartet Live at Montreux (1978) • Back Home (1979) • Paper Moon (1982) • Concord on a Summer Night (1982) • For Iola (1984) • Blue Rondo (1987) • Moscow Night (1987) • Quiet As the Moon (1991) • Late Night Brubeck (1994) • Just You, Just Me (1994) • The 40th Anniversary Tour of the U.K. (1999) • One Alone (2000) • Park Avenue South (2003)
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