Dave Brubeck Quartet - Live From The Northwest, 1959

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Live from the Northwest, 1959 is the latest release from Brubeck Editions, the Brubeck family-run label that only puts out music of the highest musical and technical quality. 

In 1959, the Dave Brubeck Quartet spent more time together on stage, on the road, and in the studio than they did at home. Indeed, the group sometimes sounded like one entity playing four instruments, but of course Dave, Paul, Eugene and Joe were strikingly individual players too.

On this officially authorized live album, The Dave Brubeck Quartet plays together like some mythological 4-headed jazz marvel responding to every musical gesture by each member of the group.

Recorded on April 4, 1959 in the historic Multnomah Hotel in Portland, Oregon and on April 5th in the auditorium at nearby Clark College, Live from the Northwest, 1959 features these four extraordinary musicians in top form, captured with exceptional sonic clarity by the groundbreaking audio engineer Wally Heider.

The rhythmic innovation and unprecedented success of Time Out, recorded only four months later, eclipsed the Quartet’s signature mastery of spontaneous counterpoint that had fascinated their audience in the 50’s; but on Live from the Northwest, 1959, it is gloriously evident.

This vinyl edition produced by Brubeck Editions for Record Store Day 2023.

TRACKLISTING:

1. When the Saints Go Marching In (6:38)

2. Basin Street Blues (6:43)

3. Gone With the Wind (8:10)

4. The Lonesome Road (7:38)

5. Two Part Contention (11:45)