Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond -- Stardust

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14 жыл бұрын

College of the Pacific, December 14, 1953. Paul Desmond began playing this tune professionally when he was with the Jack Fina band in 1949. It later became a staple of the early Brubeck quartets as Paul and Dave found many ways to improvise on it. There are at least 9 separate recordings of Desmond playing this tune and they are all different from each other; each has its own unique melodic variations and character. This one sat in Fantasy's tape vault for nearly 50 years. Taken at a slower tempo than the others, it may be the most complex and unusual of all of them. With Ron Crotty on bass and Joe Dodge on drums.

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@pamelawomack3076 Жыл бұрын

mornings have improved since I started listening to this beautiful jazz instead of the news

@MokgatlaNakedi-ki2wr Ай бұрын

WOW - I am 100% with you. Cheers & Happy listening from South Africa ❤...

@sitarnut 22 күн бұрын

Spot on...News='s the Blues. Also try Bill Evans, Paul Desmond with Ed Bickert in Canada and Wes Montgomery... Debussy and Ravel offer a full plate too.

@TheOferwexenfeld 18 күн бұрын

news?what is news?

@ScalerWave 4 жыл бұрын

I was never a Jazz fan until listening to Paul Desmond.

@danielfavre7741 Жыл бұрын

Paul Desmond is so expressive and unfolds so feeling that reaches our sensibility.

@andybaldman 3 жыл бұрын

We don't have anyone close to this today.

@stevenlowel486 2 жыл бұрын

When I first heard this piece, I was driving and I was only a couple blocks from home and got lost! This song is so hauntingly beautiful that I play it often before I sleep and I hear it in my dreams

@Shaker626 Жыл бұрын

How long ago was that, may I ask?

@jeremywheeler5522 4 жыл бұрын

Just astonishingly beautiful in its inventive improvisation of perhaps the greatest melody ever written for a popular song by the talented Mr Hoagy Carmichael. At 83 I sit here and wonder about how such near perfection can exist in a world so totally screwed up by humanity.

@karlirvine8774 3 жыл бұрын

What a lie

@AmazingMrWonderful 2 жыл бұрын

I'm grateful to KZfaq for making this masterpiece easily available to me.

@Franzie2105 3 жыл бұрын

I could listen to Paul all my life. I love Paul Desmond.... ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@marketccess1 Жыл бұрын

From Paul’s horn to God’s ears. How lucky for us to be in the audience!

@MokgatlaNakedi-ki2wr Ай бұрын

WELL SAID ❤...

@bobfield1971 4 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful solo by Paul. No one else sounds like this, Wow

@slonaut 3 жыл бұрын

Astonishing. Paul Desmond and Chet Baker, those two... The album they made entitled "Together" is deep soul too.

@DmPmRr1959 3 ай бұрын

Everything Paul Desmond played was GOLD!❤

@bingoandtoto 5 жыл бұрын

feeling like lying deep in the mountain looking at the starts in the night sky with absolute darkness

@artofcool9971 5 жыл бұрын

Paul Desmond was, is and will be the greatest cool jazz alto-sax player. Unbelievable genius!

@aaronsilva2282 4 жыл бұрын

I like him too, but them's fightin' words!

@dreamlover122769 Жыл бұрын

Johny Hodges too but no competition as you say he is great beyond belief

@alvaro5805 Жыл бұрын

don't forget art pepper

@SapphicTwist Жыл бұрын

@@alvaro5805 and lee konitz

@sitarnut 6 ай бұрын

No has cut him yet on Cool, Tone and his MIND for improvisation. On one of the LP's he quotes 7 other tune heads during his solo... and it's always as clever as heck. He truly Sings on Sax. Peace out.

@SydLightbodyOfficialMusic9 Жыл бұрын

haven’t heard this since high school. chills the entire time. utterly genius

@old39timer 11 жыл бұрын

Listen very carefully and you can hear Dave say "Yeah Beautiful" at the end of Pauls solo(How true).I have all nine recrdings that Dave and Paul made of this song,and still can't make up my mind which one I like best.

@sitarnut 6 жыл бұрын

Right on, friend.... me too.

@MBACCR 3 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing no two of them were the same.

@robertomohundro7850 Жыл бұрын

What a wonderful conundrum for you!

@sonnywarren 9 жыл бұрын

I was 14 DAYS old when this was made ! 61 years later, still good !!

@fioredecor222 8 жыл бұрын

MASTERPIECE - Elegant, sublime, and beautiful.

@willjones3141 8 жыл бұрын

this is one of the most beautiful songs i have ever heard in my entire life. how i wish i could play like dave did here, i hope i can, someday.

@mikevar5487 4 жыл бұрын

Dave’s solo sounds like something Rachmaninov would write. So beautiful. The whole piece.

@MBACCR 6 жыл бұрын

This is Desmond and Brubeck at their elegant best.

@ernestopereira5525 2 жыл бұрын

Desmond was an admirable soloist. His performances of great pieces of jazz art are still fondly remembered today and, I hope, will be remembered per secula seculorum. Saudades Maestro!

@The_Preacher_LLC 3 жыл бұрын

I just want you to know. I grew up on Paul & Dave cause my old man played Paul. Did gigs in his early 20’s. Sounded just like him. Carnegie Hall was my bible. I was missing him so much today and vis just crusherd me missing my Pop. Im 40. You posting this, just made my day. I thank you. Take care.

@user-jq1pd6qi5r 3 жыл бұрын

Of you wake me in the middle of the night I'll recognize this beautifull unike sound

@williamneumyer7147 9 ай бұрын

Very nice combination of the cut with the photo montage.

@goldwing850108 11 жыл бұрын

I bought my first album of Brubeck and Desmond back in 1954. I have ' Jazz at Storyville 1954'. Great songs ' On the Alamo', Here Lies Love', Don't worry 'bout Me'. Also have Jazz at Storyville recorded Oct. 2, 1952 with my favorite ' Over the Rainbow'. Brubecks album 'Jazz goes to Junior College ' has what I believe is the best arrangment of ' St. louis Blues' . Just my opinion. Heard lots of changes in music over my 76 years.

@tommysfather Жыл бұрын

In the wee early morning hours I couldn't possibly find any better music of this recording of Paul Desmond and the rest of Dave Brubeck's group to lull me back to sleep. I have it set to loop but I'll bet I will be gone during the first go around. Thanks Paul and to whoever did the upload.

@schotext 5 жыл бұрын

This surely is one of most impressive solo's of Paul Desmond's recordings. It is of an ethereal beauty and tells a story with such an evocative imagination and infinitive fantasy that it again and again moves me in a way that I cannot really explain. Only take the decending figure at the end of his solo (3:58) and you can only stand in awe for this lyrical genius.

@robinearle7225 2 жыл бұрын

Artie Shaw was one of Paul Desmond's heroes, and Shaw's version of Stardust is commemorated here.

@muymalo7651 5 жыл бұрын

Paul knew how to blow his horn, this is supreme!

@muymalo7651 5 жыл бұрын

This is the tune composed by Hoagy Carmichael? He's not playing the melody, only using the chord progression to improvise, Charlie Parker style.

@espr7564 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful RIP Paul

@asafbeeri4037 Жыл бұрын

This is the ONE.

@dattieo 8 жыл бұрын

In a word, sublime...

@philpryor7524 5 жыл бұрын

Such a great song deserves the essential mastery of interpretation that is given here, as Desmond particular has a Bach touch, a sharp insight into the endless possibilities of recycling, rotating, interchanging inverting, reversing and rearranging all components...

@jans5331 3 жыл бұрын

I have been a fan of Dave and Paul for some 60+ years. Never heard this superb number before but so happy I now did. Thanks !!

@dillank3240 8 жыл бұрын

This is one of my favourite songs on one of my favourite albums of all time. They were so very good. I wish I could have been there, but my mom was 5 years old when this was recorded.

@globglobobox6735 8 жыл бұрын

I was born in Brazil, land of great composers, but I am very fond about american music. Since I was a child I used to hear the best of american music in the radios of Rio de Janeiro.

@perdidoatlantic 5 жыл бұрын

glob globobox I’m raised in America & I love Gal Costa. Brazil has fantastic music.

@annbromberg9380 5 жыл бұрын

This takes me back to my childhood in NY and listening to Dave ?brubeck just great

@62blueglow 11 жыл бұрын

76 years of listening to good jazz then you must know some stuff

@cheri238 Жыл бұрын

Brubeck and Paul Desmond are on my playlist also. Never left a comment here. GREAT JAZZ MUSICIANS. Really? I THINK SO.❤️🔥

@albericoconceicaosantos4376 2 жыл бұрын

Dave, you best songs, ambolive songs.

@ronward3949 3 жыл бұрын

So Training, Performing, and Ambitions became Legends!

@arthurkim6733 3 жыл бұрын

Two geniuses together

@toolagabriellebjornstrand2926 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the music-rant. Desmond is the finest. Possibly because what he does is both exact and spontaneous, but never, never forced to be entertaining or odd.

@brucekuehn4031 6 жыл бұрын

The nightingale tells his fairytale A paradise where roses bloom

@maxhilaire212 2 жыл бұрын

A feast for the ears! Genius!

@marlae.hutchinson292 Жыл бұрын

This is beautiful a nice escape from the world 😇🙏🏽

@MrJazzohjazz 9 жыл бұрын

I always loved this tune by Dave and Paul ... I have not heard this particular version ... Thanks so much for posting it .. it is wonderful ...

@juancarloszuniga5737 4 жыл бұрын

JOE MORELLO de gran aporte , cuando formaron el cuarteto famozo y triunfador, del jazz eterno que tanto nos gusta

@kocn53 4 жыл бұрын

El baterista en esta pista es JOE DODGE.

@glendoug100 10 жыл бұрын

A truly wonderful book, a must for Desmond fans, or Jazz fans in general !!

@NotMiles 4 жыл бұрын

Most inventive and captivating. Thanks for sharing.

@arthurkim6733 4 жыл бұрын

brilliantly

@laurafort1 2 жыл бұрын

grande Paul Desmond- una voce stupenda e inconfondibile con il suo sax contralto-

@fosbury68 11 жыл бұрын

Oh to have been in the audience that winter night in Stockton. Sheer perfection. God bless Dave, Paul, Ron and Joe.

@pmwizard48 7 жыл бұрын

The Time Out album is still fresh sounding to this day by the Dave Brubeck quartet.

@bjornjanlert1013 4 жыл бұрын

absolut - underbar jazzmusik - ju äldre ja blir desto skönare klingar den här musiken ,,,

@russhamer 5 жыл бұрын

So beautiful! All of them...Paul's solo is rich, lush and full of harmonic surprize. Dave's solo is gorgeous. They were unabashedly comfortable with collectively reveling in the sheer beauty of the piece with no need for egoistic display of chops. Another time for sure....

@dreamlover122769 Жыл бұрын

thanks ever so much for posting this beautiful rendition of an already beautiful creation they and Paul do it so much justice

@jasjjb 14 жыл бұрын

This great version was unknown to me - does not happen very often when it comes to Brubeck and/or Desmond. Yet again, many thanks Frank for uploading this !!

@Yummynoodle12 8 жыл бұрын

you can just hear the emotion behind the playing at 3:35

@tinakurtidi7956 6 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@da19lila38 14 жыл бұрын

The version is really great and the photo at 2.50 is really great too...And it's so nice to see them all smiling at 6.00-6.45 and again 7.40 - the end is wonderful...Bliss!

@muhammadshakoor8745 11 жыл бұрын

Excellent tune!

@zephyrsimon 13 жыл бұрын

best version!

@dalewatkins1571 2 жыл бұрын

Makes me think of my dear dad reggie ❤

@user-cx5pl2tu2h 11 ай бұрын

My parents had a 78 rpm record of Hoagy Carmichaels "Stardust". Forget who the singer or band were. But it was a lovely pop song, back then. They also had Hogy Carmichael record, not sure of exact title, "I'm Giong Overboard with a Capital O", is main lyric. ❤ P.S. i couldn't relate to the interpretation, however, it is pretty Cool, . 😎

@fosbury68 11 жыл бұрын

magical

@danielslade9485 2 жыл бұрын

Hands, heart valves and faces

@joeblogs8204 5 жыл бұрын

wish i could project the gentleness of this tune on my trumpet

@musicola7371 5 жыл бұрын

Stardust - Clark Terry 1967, on KZfaq. This composition was inspired by the improvisations on cornet of Bix Beiderbecke.

@deanpsp555 12 жыл бұрын

@CHARVA929 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah beautiful...!

@prizmetrix 5 жыл бұрын

Actually, Fantasy, which Brubeck started, didn't even have the master tape as Dave found out years later....they had lost them! This tape of the entire concert was in Brubeck's possession, given to him by the college, after the performance and he had forgotten he had it until discovered in an old box years later.

@kocn53 5 жыл бұрын

Jan, Thanks for that tidbit, which I did not know. What someone could now easily provide, and I would love to see, is the listing of the order in which the tunes were performed at this concert. I even contacted the Fantasy complex when this was released in an attempt to find this out, but of course got nowhere.

@FishBait-ug6ek 4 ай бұрын

Time to get a Bluetooth speaker for the kitchen. My phone will work for now. Another cold beer is in order for this song .

@TheOferwexenfeld 10 күн бұрын

very very nice tnxalot

@Damush1 3 жыл бұрын

Watta beauty X

@jeremywheeler5522 3 жыл бұрын

Just one more thing. There are quite a few recordings of Stardust by Brubeck & his qurtet. All different but none come close to the beauty of this one.

@luisitosax 13 жыл бұрын

@kocn53 Thanks so much for your input! I also think that Desmond is unique.

@62blueglow 11 жыл бұрын

wow 76 years then you know some stuff

@kaisergrandz4191 6 жыл бұрын

amen

@robertowagner5883 2 жыл бұрын

I was expecting to hear Stardust being executed by this admirable "quartet" but .................. they played something else. !

@chita1205 3 ай бұрын

CAMINHO DE SEDA PARA O CÉU

@user-kd3kr1vu9o Жыл бұрын

Красота и логика

@MBACCR 6 жыл бұрын

2:20 to 2:35... incredible.

@TheEdie1958 4 жыл бұрын

Akin to Chopin's nocturnes and strings in adaggio as lyrical as a sunrise and sunset the song in fiddler on the roof.

@arthurkim6733 5 жыл бұрын

Два гения вместе - Two geniuses together

@micro77s 12 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much. I was confusing the “Jazz At Oberlin” album with Vol. 1 of the College At Pacific. No worries now -- I have had this recording for years and didn’t even know it. Guess I need to listen to Vol. 2 more often -- : D

@christinearmington 2 жыл бұрын

I still treasure a jazz album pressed red from my Oberlin teacher, Arthur Dann. He taught classical but his jazz playing was wonderful!

@andreamattos8138 Жыл бұрын

Meu Deus só agora ouvi!

@welcometothejungleeu 5 жыл бұрын

thanks

@anitadavideduo 14 жыл бұрын

Bellooo!!

@keithpurduecroft 5 жыл бұрын

Four Giants.

@luisitosax 13 жыл бұрын

I hear that Paul Desmond, even that he was mainly a Jazz Saxophonist, he always had a semiclassical sound. Is that true? I love his sound and he was my main isnpiration to learn saxophone as a child.

@lawrencemuller8972 3 жыл бұрын

It is very true.

@kocn53 13 жыл бұрын

@luisitosax If you really want to learn as much as possible about what made Desmond the unique genius that he was, I strongly recommend the "Take Five" biography by Doug Ramsey, who knew Paul for many years. It is packed full of fascinating details of Desmond's life.

@chita1205 3 ай бұрын

PAUL DESMOND

@1948BigCy 13 жыл бұрын

@luisitosax Do you have the duet album he did with Gerry Mulligan from 1958 I think? "Blues in Time"...an early breakaway attempt from Brubeck, I've never heard Paul play better (when you are familiar with an artist's music, you feel that you know them and are free to call them by their first names!)...his playing sounds as fresh and alive today as it did when he played it at that midnight session 53 years ago...truly timeless...

@BrianToothbrush64 Жыл бұрын

I hear Debussy in the piano solo... Wonderful

@DavidFuentes-yk6su 4 жыл бұрын

Muito bom

@kocn53 13 жыл бұрын

@luisitosax His first wind instrument was the clarinet, which as you know requires a firmer, more rigid embouchure. That probably determined to some extent his approach to the alto. There is a "proper" tone for classical saxophone, but by the time Desmond got really good on alto he was not using it, fortunately, and never did thereafter. He was an original in every respect, including tone, which no one to my ears has ever replicated.

@Saxman1219 13 жыл бұрын

bfizzledizzle, the drummers use brushes, which they drag across the drum head to get that effect, as opposed to striking the head.

@noshcocologue1106 5 жыл бұрын

1972 CGI animation kicked me here

@glendoug100 10 жыл бұрын

No one like him !!

@kocn53 12 жыл бұрын

I wonder if you are confusing this with a different recording? "Stardust" is not on Vol. 1, but it is on Vol. 2 as pictured. I just checked it on Amazon. The whole album (Vol. 2) is available either as CD or mp3 download; unfortunately "Stardust" is not available separately. I found it on Amazon by searching in Music for Brubeck Pacific. It may be available as a separate mp3 from other sellers. Be careful -- sellers easily get tracks mixed up as there are many versions by Brubeck.

@michaelz-c4178 8 жыл бұрын

Song of the day 14-05-2016: I've just discovered a raven's nest on Palmerston (or are those crows?) high up on the street's tallest tree, thatch and patch of twigs, shrubs and foliage. I'll soon lose interest, as I always do of anything that has such a public residence. It helps that the loft is so high up, available only to intent eyes, it helps that I've given into my addiction for Palmerston, its marigold canopy of trees turning over a new....Must I have to leave this too?