Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond - So Real (2012)

Tracklist

01. I'm in a Dancing Mood
02. Two Part Contention
03. Camptown Races
04. Jeepers Creepers
05. Gone with the Wind
06. Take Five
07. The Lonesome Road
08. Eleven Four
09. Short'nin' Bread
10. Basin Street Blues
11. Take the "A" Train
12. Blue Rondo Ala Turk
13. Georgia on My Mind
14. Brother Can You Spare a Dime

In 1951, Brubeck organized the Dave Brubeck Quartet, with Paul Desmond on alto saxophone. Their album "Time Out" became the first jazz album to sell over one million copies. The lead single, "Take Five", a tune written by Desmond in 5/4 time, similarly became the highest-selling jazz single of all time.

Dave Brubeck was the recipient of several music awards and honors throughout his lifetime. In 1996, Brubeck received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2008, Brubeck was inducted into the California Hall of Fame, and a year later, he was given an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music.

He was featured on the cover of Time in November 1954, the second jazz musician to be featured, following Louis Armstrong in February 1949. Brubeck personally found this acclaim embarrassing, since he considered Duke Ellington more deserving and was convinced that he had been favored as a white man. In one encounter with Ellington, he knocked on the door of Brubeck's hotel room to show him the cover; Brubeck's response was, "It should have been you."

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