Dave Brubeck, Time Signatures: A Career Retrospective.
Are you detecting a piano jazz bent lately? I'm telling you that I have never heard a more beautiful rendition of "Georgia On My Mind" than the one on this CD set. Don't even get me started on "My Favorite Things"... and his classic "Take Five" is unparalleled. I find his style compelling.
I wasn't exposed to jazz as an art form when I was young. My formative music was 60s, 70s and 80s rock as well as high classical music and opera (a weird juxtaposition, but it's the way it was). As an adult musician I've come to realize the gaping hole left by this oversight in my musical education, and I'm eagerly filling it with the amazing work of the great jazz masters, little by little. I want to understand it, and the only way I will do that is to soak it up while I'm studying or blogging or surfing, late at night when my mind is at its most alert.
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