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DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET with THE MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA - New Wine
DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET with THE MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA - New Wine
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The Montreal International Jazz Festival, according to Leonard Feather and many other jazz connoisseurs, is the finest festival of its kind. The festive atmosphere permeates the entire city, with local and international jazz artists playing in every concert hall and theatre, on the streets, and in the hotels and nightclubs. When the producers of the festival, Alain Simard and Andre Menard, invited the Dave Brubeck Quartet to perform, for the first time in the festival's history, a concert with members of the Montreal Symphony, we accepted the honor with eager anticipation. We carefully chose, with our conductor, Russell Gloyd, a program that we thought appropriate for a jazz festival audience. After three hours of rehearsal with an orchestra the group had never seen before, the concert was televised live on the CBC. Some months later when I saw a video of that broadcast, I was so excited about what I heard that I vowed that someday, somehow, that music would be on a recording. And here is it. Live. Direct from the sound track. An album we titled New Wine.
The Quartet (which for the past five years had included clarinetist Bill Smith, electric bassist Chris Brubeck and drummer Randy Jones in addition to the pianist/leader) teamed up with the Montreal International Jazz Festival Orchestra for this live recording. Featured are six Brubeck compositions (including "Blue Rondo à la Turk" and "Koto Song") along with "Take the 'A' Train," all of which was in the Quartet's repertoire. In general the orchestra (which has some members of The Montreal Symphony) does not weigh down the proceedings and the music, although not all that "new," is enjoyable.
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