Dave Brubeck - Dave Brubeck Octet

Product Description

From 1946 to 1949, Dave Brubeck was involved in a co-op octet based in San Francisco that was in many ways more innovative than anything he did henceforth, & was also a parallel to the Miles Davis Birth of the Cool sessions. When you listen to this marvelous ensemble, the threads connect between later period 1950s bands of Stan Kenton, Gerry Mulligan, Bill Holman, Manny Albam, Gil Evans, & Bob Brookmeyer -- arrangers & composers whose music was intricate, involved, & evolved like that of