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The Dave Brubeck Quartet is an American jazz quartet, founded in 1951 by Dave Brubeck and originally featuring Paul Desmond on saxophone and Brubeck on piano. They took up a long residency at San Francisco's Blackhawk nightclub and gained great popularity touring college campuses, releasing a series of albums with such titles as Jazz at Oberlin, Jazz Goes to College, and Jazz Goes to Junior College. By 1958, after a handful of different drummers and bassists, the "Classic Quartet" -- so-called because it remained as such virtually consistently until the group dissolved -- had been assembled, consisting of Brubeck, Desmond, Joe Morello on drums, and Eugene Wright on bass. In 1959, the Dave Brubeck Quartet released Time Out, an album their label was enthusiastic about but nonetheless hesitant to release. The album contained all original compositions, almost none of which were in common time. Nonetheless, on the strength of these unusual time signatures (the album included "Take Five",...

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Time Further Out, 1996
Angel Eyes, 1962
Brandenburg Gate: Revisited, 1963
Jazz Impressions of New York, 1964
Jazz Impressions of Japan, 2008
Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein, 1961
Jazz: Red Hot and Cool, 1955
Stardust (feat. Paul Desmond), 1990
Time Out, 2010
Bossa Nova U.S.A., 2000
Near-Myth (feat. Bill Smith), 1995
Music From West Side Story, 1990
Brubeck & Rushing (feat. Jimmy Rushing), 1998
Southern Scene, 1960
Jazz Impressions of Eurasia, 1992
For Iola, 1985
Dave Digs Disney, 1957
Reflections, 1986
Anything Goes, 2006
Countdown: Time in Outer Space, 2004
Jazz Goes to Junior College, 1958
Brubeck Desmond, 1996
Blue Rondo, 1987
The Riddle, 1961
Brubeck Time, 1998
London Flat, London Sharp, 2005
So What's New?, 1997
Paper Moon, 1992
Jazz: Red Hot & Cool, 2001
My Favorite Things, 1998
Tritonis, 1995
The Crossing, 2001
Time Changes, 2004
Jazz Impressions of the U.S.A., 1957

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