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█▓███ ARTIST..: Dave Brubeck ▐█▐
██▓██ TITLE...: Jazz Impressions of Japan ▐█▐
█▓██▓ LABEL...: Sony Legacy ▐█▐
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▒▒▒▓▒ RIP-DATE...: Feb-07-2004 STREET-DATE: Apr-10-2001 ▐█▐
▒░▒░░ RIPPER.....: Team-ICE SUPPLIER...: Team-ICE ▐█▐
░░▒░▒ TYPE.......: Album GENRE......: Jazz ▐█▐
▒▒░▒░ TRACKS.....: 08 SiZE.......: 46,7 MB ▐█▐
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█▒▒▒▓ QUALITY....: VBRkbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo ▐█▐
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█▓█▓█ URL........: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005B17V ▐█▐
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█▐01 █▐ tokyo traffic ▌█ 05:54▌█ ▐█▐
█▐02 █▐ rising sun ▌█ 04:43▌█ ▐█▐
█▐03 █▐ toki's theme from cbs-tv series, 'mr. broadway' ▌█ 02:11▌█ ▐█▐
█▐04 █▐ fujiyama ▌█ 05:06▌█ ▐█▐
█▐05 █▐ zen is when ▌█ 02:55▌█ ▐█▐
█▐06 █▐ the city is crying ▌█ 06:04▌█ ▐█▐
█▐07 █▐ osaka blues ▌█ 05:12▌█ ▐█▐
█▐08 █▐ koto song ▌█ 03:02▌█ ▐█▐
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█▐Thirteen years into their tenure, the Dave Brubeck Quartet was still ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐able to mine the creative vein for new means of expression. Despite the▌█ ▐█▐
█▐hits and popularity on college campuses, or perhaps because of it, ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright, and Joe Morello composed a ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐restless band with a distinctive sound. These eight tracks, all based ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐on a tour of Japan the year before, were, in a sense, Brubeck ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐fulfilling a dictum from his teacher, the French composer Darius ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Milhaud, who exhorted him to "travel the world and keep your ears ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐open." The sketches Brubeck and Desmond created all invoke the East, ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐particularly the folk melodies of Japan directly, while still managing ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐to use the Debussian impressionistic approach to jazz that kept them ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐riding the charts and creating a body of music that, while playing into▌█ ▐█▐
█▐the exotica craze of the moment, was still jazz composed and played ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐with integrity. The gorgeous modal blues that uses Eastern scale whole ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐tones with Western harmonic notions chromatically that comprise the ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐melody and solo frameworks for Desmond in "Fujiyama" are a beautiful ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐contrast to the relatively straight-ahead ballad style featured on "Zen▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Is When," with its 4/4 time sling rhythm and simple melody ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐extrapolated by Brubeck in purely Japanese whole tone scale on the ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐harmony. Also, the shimmer and whisper of "The City Is Crying," where ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Desmond's solo is one of the most beautiful of his career, using ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐arpeggios as half tones to reach down into the middle of his horn's ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐register and play harmonically a counterpoint that is as painterly as ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐it is poignant. On "Osaka Blues," Brubeck once again reaches for an ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐oriental scale to play a modal blues α la Miles Davis with Wynton ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Kelly; Desmond responds by playing straight post-bop Bluesology with ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐even a squeak or two in his solo. In all, Jazz Impressions of Japan is ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐one of the great forgotten Brubeck records. Its sweetness is tempered ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐with musical adventure and the improvisational experience only a band ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐that had been together 13 years could provide. It's truly wonderful. ▌█ ▐█▐
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