Gone with the Wind (Dave Brubeck album)
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Gone with the Wind is a jazz
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 album released by The Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck
David Warren "Dave" Brubeck is an American jazz pianist. He has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranges from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills...

 Quartet in 1959 on Columbia CL 1347 (monophonic) and CS 8156 (Stereo). The album was recorded in Los Angeles
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, California
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 on April 22 and 23, 1959. This is a concept album paying tribute to the State of Georgia
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. The album has received such reviews as "All... you would expect from Dave Brubeck" and as one of the "classic" Dave Brubeck Quartet linup's lesser efforts.

Personnel

  • Paul Desmond
    Paul Desmond
    Paul Desmond , born Paul Emil Breitenfeld, was a jazz alto saxophonist and composer born in San Francisco, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning that group's greatest hit, "Take Five"...

     - alto sax
  • Joe Morello
    Joe Morello
    Joseph Albert Morello was a jazz drummer best known for his 12½-year stint with The Dave Brubeck Quartet. He was frequently noted for playing in the unusual time signatures employed by that group in such pieces as "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo à la Turk"...

     - drums
  • Gene Wright - bass
  • Dave Brubeck - piano

Track listing

  1. "Swanee River"
  2. "The Lonesome Road"
  3. "Georgia on My Mind"
  4. "Camptown Races"
  5. "Camptown Races" (different version)
  6. "Short'nin' Bread"
  7. "Basin Street Blues"
  8. "Ol' Man River"
  9. "Gone with the Wind"
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