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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", "Blue Rondo à la Turk", and "Pick Up Sticks"), it quickly went platinum. The quartet followed up its success with several more albums in the same vein, including Time Further Out (1961), Countdown: Time in Outer Space, Time Changes, and Time In. These albums were also known for using contemporary paintings as cover art, featuring the work of S. Neil Fujita on Time Out, Joan Miró on Time Further Out, Franz Kline on Time in Outer Space, and Sam Francis on Time Changes (no artist's work, however, was featured on the cover of Time In). A high point for the group was their classic 1963 live album At Carnegie Hall, described by critic Richard Palmer as "arguably Dave Brubeck's greatest concert". The "classic" Dave Brubeck Quartet broke up in 1967, except for a 25th anniversary reunion in 1976. Brubeck formed a new quartet in 1968. Today, the Dave Brubeck Quartet continues to tour the world, performing hits from the classic Quartet era as well as new material.

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Discography

Jazz Goes to College, 2008
Bravo! Brubeck!, 1998
Time Further Out, 1996
At Carnegie Hall, 2001
Buried Treasures, 1998
Angel Eyes, 1962
Brandenburg Gate: Revisited, 1963
1963-02-22: Carnegie Hall, New York City, NY, USA (feat. Paul Desmond), 1990
Time Out, 2010
Jazz Impressions of New York, 1964
Jazz Impressions of Japan, 2008
Back Home
Original Album Classics, 2011
Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein, 1961
Jazz: Red Hot and Cool, 1955
25th Anniversary Reunion, 1989
Stardust (feat. Paul Desmond), 1990
Jazz at the College of the Pacific, Volume 2, 2002
Brubeck Meets Bach, 2007
The Great Concerts, 1988
Someday My Prince Will Come
Bossa Nova U.S.A., 2000
Dave Brubeck Quartet 02.04.60 Essen,Grugahalle, 2010
Tea for Two, 2005
Near-Myth (feat. Bill Smith), 1995
Music From West Side Story, 1990
Brubeck & Rushing (feat. Jimmy Rushing), 1998
The Last Set at Newport, 1990
Newport 1958, 1958
Southern Scene, 1960
Jazz Impressions of Eurasia, 1992
Jazz at the College of the Pacific, 1987
Their Last Time Out, 2011
2004-07-23: Stockholm Jazz Festival, Konserthuset Stora Salen, Stockholm, Sweden
1959-04: Portland, OR, USA
Dave Brubeck at Storyville, 1954
For Iola, 1985
Dave Digs Disney, 1957
Reflections, 1986
Anything Goes, 2006
Countdown: Time in Outer Space, 2004
Best of Brubeck (1979-2004), 2006
Jazz Goes to Junior College, 1958
Brubeck Desmond, 1996
Jazz at Oberlin, 1987
Blue Rondo, 1987
1963-07-12: Rock Rimmon Jazz Festival, [unknown], NH, USA
The Riddle, 1961
In Concert (feat. Paul Desmond), 1986
Brubeck Time, 1998
Double Live From the U.S.A. & U.K., 2001
The Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1994
Take Five (feat. Paul Desmond)
London Flat, London Sharp, 2005
So What's New?, 1997
In Amsterdam, 1963
Concord on a Summer Night, 1982
Jackpot, 1968
Paper Moon, 1992
Jazz: Red Hot & Cool, 2001
On Campus, 1973
My Favorite Things, 1998
Tritonis, 1995
The Crossing, 2001
1966-11: BBC Radio, London, UK
Park Avenue South, 2003
Time Changes, 2004
Take Five, 2010
In Europe, 1958
New Wine, 1990
Complete 1958 Berlin Concert, 2008
Jazz Impressions of the U.S.A., 1957
Southern Scene / The Riddle, 2010
Gone With the Wind, 1959
2006-09-17: Monterey Jazz Festival
1967-07-23: Live in Juan-les-Pins, France
At Wilshire Ebell: The Historic 1953 L.A. Concert, 2006

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