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Full Albums on YouTube

Six Dave Brubeck records spanning the college tour years through the classic quartet, embedded here as full-album YouTube videos so you can hit play and listen end to end. Each one links back to its full Vinyl Standard review, with personnel, session notes, and the fan-voice writeup.

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Era Two · Classic Columbia Quartet
Time Out
1959 · Columbia

The unusual-meters experiment that became the first jazz album to sell a million copies. Take Five, Blue Rondo a la Turk, Three to Get Ready. Brubeck, Desmond, Eugene Wright, Joe Morello. Recorded across three sessions in 1959.

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Era Two · Classic Columbia Quartet
Time Further Out
1961 · Columbia

The sequel to Time Out, pushing further into mixed and odd meters, framed around a series of Joan Miro paintings. It's All Right with Me in 5/4, Unsquare Dance in 7/4. Tighter and more swinging than its more famous predecessor.

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Era Three · Late Quartet
Jazz Impressions of Japan
1964 · Columbia

A travel record. Brubeck wrote the suite during the quartet's 1964 Japanese tour, weaving Japanese melodic ideas through the group's vocabulary. Includes Koto Song, Tokyo Traffic, and the haunting Rising Sun.

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Era Two · Classic Columbia Quartet
Bossa Nova U.S.A.
1963 · Columbia

Brubeck's take on the bossa nova wave that had crossed over from Brazil two years earlier. Originals like Cantiga Nova Swing and Theme from Mr. Broadway alongside Vento Fresco and a quartet reading of Lamento.

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Era Two · Classic Columbia Quartet
Dave Digs Disney
1957 · Columbia

An album of Disney film themes, cut with the quartet shortly after Eugene Wright joined on bass. Some Day My Prince Will Come arrives here years before Miles Davis recorded his version. Desmond is in beautiful form throughout.

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Era One · Fantasy and Early Columbia
Jazz Goes to College
1954 · Columbia

The live record that broke Brubeck nationally, drawn from concerts at Oberlin, Michigan, and Cincinnati in 1953 and 1954. Desmond on alto, Bob Bates on bass, Joe Dodge on drums. The college tour era captured on tape, with extended workouts on Balcony Rock and Le Souk.

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