►ARTIST: The Dave Brubeck Quartet
►ALBUM TITLE: Bossa Nova USA
►NUMBER OF TRACKS: 10, 40:48 minutes.
►PRODUCER: Teo Macero
►RECORD LABEL: Columbia Records, CL-1998.
►RELEASED: 1963
►FORMAT: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Pitman Press.
►GENRE: Jazz
►CONDITION: Record is excellent, cover has minor wear.
►BIO: David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, and one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz whose compositions have become jazz standards. Brubeck most often performed throughout his career as leader of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, which kept its name despite shifting personnel. Brubeck organized the Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1951, with Paul Desmond on alto saxophone. They took up a long residency at San Francisco's Black Hawk nightclub and gained great popularity touring college campuses, recording a series of albums. In 1954, he was featured on the cover of Time, the second jazz musician to be so honored (the first was Louis Armstrong on February 21, 1949). Brubeck personally found this acclaim embarrassing, since he considered Duke Ellington more deserving and was convinced that he had been favored as a Caucasian. Ellington knocked on the door of Brubeck's hotel room to show him the cover and Brubeck's response was, "It should have been you." In the early 1960's Dave Brubeck was the program director of WJZZ-FM radio (now WEZN-FM). He achieved his vision of an all-jazz format radio station along with his friend and neighbor John E. Metts, one of the first African Americans in senior radio management. Also in the early 1960's, Brubeck and his wife, Iola, developed a jazz musical, The Real Ambassadors, based in part on experiences they and their colleagues had during foreign tours on behalf of the Department of State. The soundtrack album, which featured Louis Armstrong, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, and Carmen McRae was recorded in 1961; the musical was performed at the 1962 Monterey Jazz Festival.
►ALBUM INFO: Bossa Nova U.S.A. is a studio album released by the Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1963 by Columbia originally in the United States as a vinyl LP record CS-8798 (stereo) and CL-1998 (mono).
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