Paul Desmond/Alto Sax

Discography Part Two: 1955-1959

Columbia CL 699
Tracks # 1-4 - Basin Street Club,NYC - 10/54
Tracks #5-7 - Basin Street Club, NYC - 7 & 8/55

Legacy Records 61468
Includes bonus tracks # 8 & 9.

1. Lover 4:56
2. Little Girl Blue 10:32
3. Fare Thee Well, Annabelle (trad.-arr Brubeck) 7:20
4. Sometimes I'm Happy (Caesar-Youmans-Grey) 5:17
5. The Duke (Brubeck) 2:38
6. Indiana (MacDonald-Hanley) 5:48
7. Love Walked In (Gershwin-Gershwin) 8:43
8. Taking a Chance on Love
9. Closing Time

The Newport Years, Vol. 1
Philology W 51 - July 16, 55 - Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, R.I.
Philology W 51-2

Chet Baker: The 50s

CCB 1227

• Tea For Two (Youmans-Caesar) (incomplete) 9:44

Chet Baket/Trumpet
Clifford Brown/Trumpet
Paul Desmond/Alto Sax
Gerry Mulligan/Baritone Sax
Dave Brubeck/Piano
Norman Bates/Bass
Joe Dodge/Drums

Dave Brubeck Quartet

Dave Brubeck Quartet Live in 1956-57 Featuring Paul Desmond

Tracks #1-5 & #9-16 broadcast live from Basin Street Jazz Club, N.Y.C. - 2/56
Tracks #6-8 broadcast live from The Blue Note, Chicago - 3/57
Jazz Band Records - EBCD 2102-2

1. Theme (The Duke) - Intro (Brubeck) 1:02
2. Stardust (Carmichael) 6:50
3. Gone With the Wind (Magidson-Wrubel) 6:36
4. Stompin' for Mili (Brubeck-Desmond) 5:04
5. Out of Nowhere (Heyman-Green) 4:29 (incomplete)
6. Theme (The Duke) - Intro (Brubeck) 2:18
7. I'm In A Dancing Mood
8. The Song Is For You
9. A Minor Thing 6:25
10. In Your Own Sweet Way (Brubeck) 4:27
11. The Trolley Song (Martin-Blaine) 2:50
12. Introduction
13. The Duke (Brubeck)
14. Love Walked In (Gershwin-Gershwin) 7:24
15. Here Lies Love 6:47
16. All The Things You Are (Hammerstein-Kern) 4:45

Dave Brubeck Quartet

Dave Brubeck and Jay & Kai at Newport

Columbia CL 932 - 7/56
Recorded at Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, R.I.
Sony (Japan) SRCS 9522

(Listed in session order. Album also included 3 additional tracks by the J.J. Johnson-Kai Winding Quintet.)

• In Your Own Sweet Way (Brubeck) 8:01
• Two-Part Contention (H. Brubeck) 11:44
• I'm In A Dancing Mood 2:59
• Take the "A" Train (Strayhorn) 5:05

Paul Desmond / Dave Brubeck

Playboy Jazz Allstars Album Vol. 1

NOTE: In the discography that accompanied the ArtistsHouse LP Paul Desmond (AH2) Jim Gicking listed this as a "Paul Desmond" recording, though both Fischer and Bruyninckx call it a "Dave Brubeck Quartet" recording. I have been told that the listing on the album is Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond.

Playboy 1957 - August 3, 1956 - Stratford, Ontario

• Pilgrim's Progress 9:16

Dave Brubeck Quartet

Jazz Impressions of the U.S.A.

Columbia CL 984 - 11/56
Tracks #1-7 were recorded in NYC; Track #8 was recorded in Oakland, CA

Side One -

1. Ode To A Cowboy (Brubeck) 4:57
2. Summer Song (Brubeck) 6:02
3. Yonder For Two (Brubeck) 4:58
4. History of a Boy Scout (Brubeck) 4:32

1. Plain Song (Brubeck) 3:53
2. Curtain Time (Brubeck) 4:44
3. Sounds of the Loop (Brubeck) 7:25
4. Home at Last (Brubeck) 3:49

Dave Brubeck Quintet

Reunion

Fantasy 3268 - 2/57 - San Francisco, CA
Fantasy OJCCD-150-2

1. Strolling (Van Kreidt) 3:20
2. Shouts (Van Kreidt) 6:06
3. Prelude (Van Kreidt) 3:53
4. Divertimento (Van Kreidt) 5:15
5. Chorale (Bach arranged by Van Kreidt) 4:15
6. Leo's Place (Van Kreidt) 5:17
7. Darien Mode (Van Kreidt) 4:32
8. Pieta (Van Kreidt) 5:56

Dave Brubeck Quartet

Jazz Goes To Junior College

Sony (Japan) SRCS 9523

Side One -

1. Bru's Blues (Brubeck) 11:28
2. These Foolish Things (Marvell-Strachey-Link) 10:02

1. I'm Afraid The Masquerade Is Over (Magidson-Wrubel) 6:06
2. One Moment Worth Years (Brubeck) 8:52
3. St. Louis Blues (Handy) 8:17

Dave Brubeck Quartet

Dave Digs Disney

Columbia CL 1059
Tracks #1,2,5 were recorded in N.Y.C. - 6/57
Tracks #3,4,6 were recorded in L.A. - 8/57
Sony Records SRCS 7132 (Import)
Columbia CK 48820

1. Alice In Wonderland (Hillard-Fain) 9:36
2. Give A Little Whistle (Washington-Harline) 7:34
3. Heigh-Ho (Morey-Churchill) 3:56
4. When You Wish Upon A Star (Washington-Harline) 4:50
5. Someday My Prince Will Come (Morey-Churchill) 8:16
6. One Song (Morey-Churchill) 4:59

Dave Brubeck/Piano
Paul Desmond/Alto Sax
Norman Bates/Bass
Joe Morello/Drums

Dave Digs Disney (Import)

Sony International 9630 - includes two bonus tracks (7 & 8).

1. Alice In Wonderland
2. Give A Little Whistle
3. Heigh-Ho
4. When You Wish Upon A Star
5. Someday My Prince Will Come
6. One Song
7. Very Good Advice
8. So This Is Love
   

Gerry Mulligan - Paul Desmond Quartet

Blues in Time

Tracks #8-11 - Previously unreleased - 8/57 - Los Angeles, CA
Track 11 is incomplete with Gerry Mulligan chatting at the end.
Down Beat Review
Verve 314 519 850-2 (contains all 10 Tracks)

1. Blues In Time (Desmond) 9:00
2. Body And Soul (Green-Eyton-Heyman-Sour) 9:36
3. Stand Still (Mulligan) 3:24
4. Line For Lyons (Mulligan) 3:04
5. Wintersong - Take 1 (Desmond) 6:56
6. Battle Hymn Of The Republican (Desmond) 7:42
7. Fall Out (Mulligan) 5:36
8. Tea For Two (Youmans-Caesar) 7:56
9. Wintersong - Take 2 (Desmond) 8:08
10. Lover (Rodgers-Hart) 6:43
11. Lover (Rodgers-Hart) 2:04 (incomplete)

Gerry Mulligan/Baritone Sax
Paul Desmond/Alto Sax
Joe Benjamin/Bass
Dave Bailey/Drums
Produced by Norman Ganz

Blues in Time (Gold CD)

Mobile Fidelity

1. Blues In Time
2. Body And Soul
3. Stand Still
4. Line For Lyons
5. Wintersong
6. Battle Hymn Of The Republican
7. Fall Out
   

Paul Desmond / Dave Brubeck Quartet

Playboy Jazz Allstars Album Vol. 2

Desmond appeared on two cuts of this album. One, "Jazzabelle", under his own name. And the other, "Two Sleepy People", with the DBQ. "Jazzabelle" is probably from the album The Paul Desmond Quartet with Don Elliott, recorded in February, 1956.

Side 3:

• Jazzabelle (Desmond) 6:22

Side 4:

• Two Sleepy People 5:40

Tracks #1-4 - Berlin, Germany - 2/58
Tracks #5-6 - Hannover, Germany - 2/58
Tracks #7-8 - San Francisco - 1/50
Philology W 72-2

1. These Foolish Things (Marvell-Strackey-Link) 9:13 (incomplete)
2. St. Louis Blues (W.C. Handy) 13:01
3. Two-Part Contention (H. Brubeck) 15:38
4. Take the "A" Train (Strayhorn) 18:14
5. Out of Nowhere (Heyman-Green) 9:56
6. These Foolish Things (Marvell-Strackey-Link) 8:15
7. The Man I Love (Gershwin-Gershwin) 2:44
8. Down in Honky Tonk Town (Trad.) 2:31

Dave Brubeck Quartet

In Europe

Columbia CL 1168 - 3/58 - Copenhagen, Denmark
Sony (Japan) SRCS 9529

Side One -

1. Wonderful Copenhagen (Loesser) 4:48
2. My One Bad Habit Is Falling In Love (Brubeck) 3:51
3. Tangerine (Mercer-Schertzinger) 9:32

1. The Wright Groove (Wright) 6:37
2. Like Someone In Love (Burke-VanHeusen) 7:10
3. Watusi Drums (Brubeck) 7:48

(Fontana 885 108 TY)

Tracks #1,2,3,7 were recorded at Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, R.I. - 7/58
Tracks #4,5,6 were recorded in N.Y.C. - 7/58
Fontana 885 108 TY (England)
Columbia CL 1249
Sony (Japan) SRCS 9361

Down Beat Concert Review

1. Things Ain't What They Used to Be (Persons-Ellington) 7:00
2. Jump For Joy (Ellington-Webster-Kuller) 5:15
3. Perdido (Tizol) 12:40
4. Liberian Suite - Dance no. 3 (Ellington) 6:30
5. The Duke (Brubeck) 6:20
6. Flamingo (Anderson-Grouya) 6:15
7. C Jam Blues (Ellington) 4:12
8. Take the "A" Train (Strayhorn) 0:26

Dave Brubeck Quartet

Jazz Impressions of Eurasia

Columbia CL 1251 - 8/58 - N.Y.C.
Columbia/Legacy CK 48531

Sony (Japan) SRCS 9360

1. Nomad (Brubeck) 7:19
2. Brandenburg Gate (Brubeck) 6:52
3. The Golden Horn (Brubeck) 4:59
4. Thank You (Dziekuje) 3:32
5. Marble Arch (Brubeck) 6:55
6. Calcutta Blues (Brubeck) 9:54

Dave Brubeck Quartet

Gone With the Wind

Columbia CL 1347 - 4/59 - L.A.
Columbia/Legacy CK 40627
Sony (Japan) SRCS 9362

1. Swanee River (Foster) 5:52
2. The Lonesome Road (Austin-Shilkret) 7:38
3. Georgia On My Mind (Gorrell-Carmichael) 6:37
4. Camptown Races (Foster) 1:45
5. Camptown Races (Foster) 2:07
6. Short'nin' Bread 2:28
7. Basin Street Blues (Williams) 4:31
8. Ol' Man River (Hammerstein-Kern) 2:28
9. Gone With The Wind (Magidson-Wrubel) 6:21

Dave Brubeck Quartet

Time Out

Columbia CL 1397 - 6, 7 & 8/59 - N.Y.C.

NOTE: This is the big one -- the first of the "time signature" LPs, and the first recording/release of "Take Five". There's lots of debate over who contributed what to the tune "Take Five". It appears that Desmond, Joe Morello, and Brubeck all had something to do with it, but Desmond got the nod for writing the tune. It was released as a single (COL 31769), and went to the top of the charts.
Desmond's last official recording of it is from March 10/76 on the DBQ 25th Anniversary Reunion (A&M CD 0806). There are also a couple of later bootleg recordings: one of the Paul Desmond Quartet at the Edmonton Jazz Festival, April 14/76 on which he plays "Take Five" with Ed Bickert (guitar), Don Thompson (bass), and Jerry Fuller (drums), and a DBQ 25th Reunion Tour concert recording from August 28/76 at the Eastman Theater in Rochester, N.Y.

Classic Records CS-8192 (Currently available as a 45 rpm, vinyl LP)
Columbia/Legacy CK 40585
Columbia 52860 - 24K Gold
Columbia 64408 - 24K Gold (Repackaged)
Columbia CK/CT 65122

1. Blue Rondo à la Turk (Brubeck) 6:42
2. Strange Meadow Lark (Brubeck) 7:20
3. Take Five (Desmond) 5:24
4. Three To Get Ready (Brubeck) 5:21
5. Kathy's Waltz (Brubeck) 4:48
6. Everybody's Jumpin' (Brubeck) 4:22
7. Pick Up Sticks (Brubeck) 4:16

Dave Brubeck Quartet

Take Five / Blue Rondo à la Turk

NOTE: This is the hit single version of Take Five, with Blue Rondo à la Turk on the "B" side. It was the first jazz "million-seller". Brubeck told me in 1991 that the DBQ was in England when the single was released unbeknownst to him. He claimed the single was actually an edited version of an alternate take recorded on the same day, July 1, 1959. Fischer lists an alternate take being released on COL 4-41479, but he lists the take released on Time Out as the one released as a single. Whatever the truth, it became Brubeck's signature tune, and a jazz anthem of sorts, played by budding saxophonists around the world.
For more information see Time Out.

Columbia COL 31769, COL 13-33036 - 7 & 8/59, N.Y.C.

• Take Five (Desmond) 2:50
• Blue Rondo à la Turk (Brubeck) 2:59

Dave Brubeck Quartet

Live featuring Paul Desmond

Cuts #1-7 released as Blue Vox (Switzerland) B/90174 Live Together Dave Brubeck Featuring Paul Desmond and also as Joker SM 3804 Brubeck Quartet in Italy - Listed by Bruyninckx as ca. /56; by Fischer as ca. /55; and on the album as ca. /54
Cuts #8-11 - Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, R.I. - 7/59
Bandstand BDCD 1538

1. Shis Kebab (Brubeck) 4:15
2. Fare Thee Well Annabelle (trad.-arr Brubeck) 5:12
3. Don't Worry 'Bout Me (Bloom-Koehler) 6:43
4. Lover, Come Back To Me (Romberh-Hammerstein) 6:12
5. Royal Garden Blues (Williams) 3:38
6. How High The Moon (Lewis-Hamilton) 3:20
7. Love Walked In (Gershwin) 2:20
8. Gone With The Wind (Magidson-Wrubel) 5:11
9. The Lonesome Road (Austin-Shilkret) 8:25
10. Three To Get Ready (Brubeck) 4:44
11. Blue Rondo à la Turk (Brubeck) 5:00

Dave Brubeck Quartet

Dave Brubeck Featuring Paul Desmond: St. Louis Blues

Cuts #1-4 Recorded at KQED-TV, San Francisco, CA - 1/62
Cut # 5 Recorded at Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, R.I. - 7/59
Moon Records MCD 028-2

1. St. Louis Blues (Handy) 5:36
2. Nomad (Brubeck) 6:08
3. Thank You (Brubeck) 5:47
4. Brandenburg Gate (Brubeck) 4:24
5. Gone With The Wind (Wrubel) 5:10
   Lonesome Road (Shilkret) 8:16
   Blues (Brubeck) 4:30
   Blue Rondo à la Turk (Brubeck) 5:15
6. Ralph Gleason interviews Dave Brubeck and Some of Brubeck's considerations on classical music and jazz. 7:26

Dave Brubeck Quartet, Trio and Duo

Southern Scene

Columbia CL 1439 - 9/59 - N.Y.C.
Sony (Japan) SRCS 9363

(Listed in session order.)

• At the Darktown Strutters' Ball (Brooks) 1:36
• When It's Sleepy Time Down South 5:50
• Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen 5:55
• Southern Scene 5:40
• Little Rock Getaway 3:17
• Darling Nellie Gray 5:15

Paul Desmond Quartet (with Jim Hall)
(Paul Desmond and Friends)

"First Place Again" (WS 1356)

East of the Sun (Discovery DSCD-840)

First Place Again (Gambit 69217)

"First Place Again" (Collectables 7778)

Warner Bros WS 1356 - First Place Again! - 9/59

NOTE: IMHO this is one of the best, if not the best, Paul Desmond recording that you can get. His playing, especially on "I Get a Kick Out of You", is superb. This was his first LP with Jim Hall, and it doesn't get any better than this.
All of these tracks were also released on the Mosaic collection The Complete Recordings of the Paul Desmond Quartet with Jim Hall (MD4-120), but that 4-CD set has been out-of-print for a couple of years now. So if you see this, grab it.
The original title, "First Place Again", apparently referred to Desmond's consistent winning of the Down Beat Reader's Poll.

Discovery DSCD-840
Warner Bros. WPCR-506 (Japanese Import)
Gambit Records 69217 (digitally remastered)
Collectables 7778

1. I Get a Kick Out of You (Porter) 8:36
2. For All We Know (Coots-Lewis) 5:35
3. 2 Degrees East, 3 Degrees West (Lewis) 7:25
4. Greensleeves (Traditional) 2:05
5. You Go to My Head (Gillespie-Coots) 6:25
6. East of the Sun - and West of the Moon (Bowman) 5:45
7. Time After Time (Cahn-Styne) 6:12

Paul Desmond / Dave Brubeck Quartet

Playboy Jazz Allstars Album Vol. 3

Desmond appeared on two tracks, one under his own name -- "Susie", and the other with the DBQ -- "Golden Horn". "Susie" was recorded during the Warner Bros. sessions with Jim Hall for First Place Again -- September 5, 6 & 7, 1959. According to Mosaic Records, the 3-track stereo master and even the mono master of the tune is missing. For the Mosaic collection, The Complete Recordings of the Paul Desmond Quartet with Jim Hall, Mosaic acquired a clean copy of the original Playboy LP and made a disc transfer.

Playboy 1959 - /59

Side 4:

• Golden Horn 5:05

Side 6:

• Suzie (Desmond) 3:49

• Dialogue(s) for Jazz Combo and Orchestra (H. Brubeck) - Allegro
  - Andante - Ballad
  - Adagio - Ballad
  - Allegro - Blues
• Two-Part Contention (H. Brubeck)
• One Moment Worth Years (H. Brubeck)

Viper’s Nest - Discovery Series VN-160

1. I’m In a Dancing Mood (Al Hoffman & Al Goodhart) 3:20
2. Two Part Contention (Brubeck) 10:05
3. The Duke (Brubeck) 2:12
4. Take the A Train (#1) (Billy Strayhorn) 6:04
5. Gone with the Wind (Herb Magidson & Allie Wrobel) 5:06
6. Lonesome Road (Nat Shilkret & Gene Austin) 8:10
7. Take the A Train (#2) (Billy Strayhorn) 5:37
   “New Material in New Tempi” (three part composition)
8. Eleven Four (Desmond) 4:23
9. Take Five (Desmond) 5:18
10. Blue Rondo ala Turk (Brubeck) 7:59

Introduction
Recordings from 1948-54
Recordings from 1955-59
Recordings from 1960-69
Recordings from 1970-77
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