Jazz: Red Hot and Cool | ||||
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Released | 1955 (Vinyl album) 2001 (CD reissue) | |||
Recorded | October 12, 1954 July 23, 1955 August 9, 1955 Basin Street East, New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 46:03 (1955) 57:12 (2001) | |||
Label | Columbia CL 699 (1955) CK 61468 (2001) | |||
Producer | George Avakian | |||
The Dave Brubeck Quartet chronology | ||||
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [1] |
Jazz: Red Hot and Cool is a jazz live album by The Dave Brubeck Quartet. It was recorded during one 1954 and two 1955 performances at the Basin Street East club in New York City.[2] Released originally in 1955, this album was remastered and reissued in 2001, while adding two tracks that were not included in the original album.[3]
This album presents the pre-classic Quartet with Bob Bates on bass and Joe Dodge on drums backing pianist Dave Brubeck and alto saxophonist Paul Desmond,[2] before the bassist Eugene Wright and drummer Joe Morello joined the most experimental Brubeck Quartet of the sixties.
As a result, on the strength of the complex chords of Brubeck and the remarkably cool tone of Desmond, relaxing and calming, Bates and Dodge focus on giving a swinging, but solid and quiet accompaniment to the quartet, without disrupting the discursive flow of ideas between the pianist and the altoist.