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Recorded chiefly in 1964, Jazz Impressions of Japan is a series of musical reflections on a tour of the country which Dave Brubeck made in the spring of that year in the company of altoist Paul Desmond, bassist Eugene Wright and drummer Joe Morello. The quartet had been together for nearly a decade and the musicians' rapport is as prodigious as one might expect. World Music purists might argue that the eight tunes on offer here employ the properties of Japanese music to only a cosmetic degree and they'd be right. Inconsequentially so, however: the pieces combine an impressionistic Eastern charm with all that is best about Americ
Recorded chiefly in 1964, Jazz Impressions of Japan is a series of musical reflections on a tour of the country which Dave Brubeck made in the spring of that year in the company of altoist Paul Desmond, bassist Eugene Wright and drummer Joe Morello. The quartet had been together for nearly a decade and the musicians' rapport is as prodigious as one might expect. World Music purists might argue that the eight tunes on offer here employ the properties of Japanese music to only a cosmetic degree and they'd be right. Inconsequentially so, however: the pieces combine an impressionistic Eastern charm with all that is best about American jazz, especially its swinging drive. There are moments of great delicacy too, notably on "The City Is Crying", "Zen Is When" (recorded in 1960) and "Koto Song", which the quartet would record several times thereafter. While the CD is short at 35 minutes, it is full of substance, confounding the smart-alecks who wrote it off at the time as yet another piece of Brubeck pretension. In all its freshness and sureness of touch will delight listeners of almost all persuasions. --Richard Palmer
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Manufacturer: Sony Jazz
Release date: 7 May 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5099706572626
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