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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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Click play on any embed. Press F for fullscreen once the video loads. Videos are hosted on YouTube and link out to the source channel. Some uploads have embedded playback turned off on YouTube's side. Those cards open the album directly on YouTube in a new tab.

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 1925 Joan Miro painting. Far More Blue 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 most of the pieces as impressions of the quartet's spring 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 was crossing over from Brazil in 1962, the same year these sessions were cut. Originals like Cantiga Nova Swing, Vento Fresco, and Lamento alongside Howard Brubeck's Theme for June and a bossa reading of The Trolley Song.

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

An album of Disney film themes, cut in 1957 with Norman Bates on bass, the year before Eugene Wright joined. 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 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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