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With the holiday season upon us, I hope you will consider making a gift of A Dave Brubeck Reader - Volume 1 - 1948-1972 to the Jazz fans among your family and friends.
It is available exclusively through Amazon.com and, given that it offers 364 pages of information about Dave and his music, I have priced it very reasonably at $25.99 for the paperback and $9.99 for an eBook.
To give you some idea of the breadth and depth of the writings on offer in the anthology, some of which are extremely rare, I am posting the book’s Table of Contents for you to look over.
Also, please keep in mind that I am sharing 50% of the profits from the sale of the book to the local school district for use toward the purchase of musical instruments for individual students.
Happy Holidays to you and yours from The Cerra Family.
Table of Contents
Introduction, pp. 7-9
Prologue - Dave Brubeck: A Life in American Music by Doug Ramsey, pp. 10-35
Chapter 1 - “Time to Begin” by Fred M. Hall, pp. 36-43
Chapter 2. The Dave Brubeck Octet by Dave Brubeck and Dr. Frank Tirro, pp. 44-51
Chapter 3. The Dave Brubeck Octet: A Formula and A Dilemma by Raymond Horricks, pp. 52-57
Chapter 4. The Dave Brubeck Octet by Philip Clark, pp. 58-70
Chapter 5. Cal Tjader and The Dave Brubeck Octet and Trio by S. Duncan Reid, pp. 71-78
Chapter 6. The Complete Storyville Broadcasts - Jason Yale, pp. 79-83
Chapter 7. The Formative Years of the Dave Brubeck Quartet by Philip Elwood,
pp. 84-94
Chapter 8. Brubeck at Oberlin, A Review of the Jazz Literature by Steven A. Cerra, pp. 95-104.
Chapter 9. 1954 Jazz at College of the Pacific and Jazz Goes to College - Wayne Morrill, Katie Neubauer and George Avakian, pp. 105-114
Chapter 10. The Early Years at Columbia Records and Brubeck Time by Stephen Crist, pp. 115-120
Chapter 11. Dave Brubeck Answers His Critics - Don Freeman DB 8.10.1955, pp. 121-123
Chapter 12. Ralph J. Gleason - “Dave Brubeck: What Makes Him Tick,” DB 7.25.1957, pp. 124-130
Chapter 13. Ralph J. Gleason - Dave Brubeck: 'They Said I Was Too Far Out' DB 8. 8. 1957, pp. 131-137
Chapter 14. Ralph J. Gleason - Dave Brubeck: First Things First, DB 9.5.1957, pp. 138-145
Chapter 15. The Quartet from These Jazzmen of Our Times by Raymond Horricks, pp. 146-152
Chapter 16. Jazz Impressions of the U.S.A. and Dave Digs Disney by Philip Clark, pp. 153-159
Chapter 17. Jazz Impressions of Dave Brubeck by Steven A. Cerra and Howard Mandel, 160-166
Chapter 18. Digging Dave Brubeck and Time Out - Alan Goldscher, pp. 167-182
Chapter 19. Metrical Experimentation from "Dave Brubeck's Time Out" by Stephen Crist, pp. 183-189
Chapter 20. Dave Brubeck’s Time Out: Why It’s So Great - Kile Smith, pp. 190-192
Chapter 21. Dave Brubeck - Beyond Take Five - John Edward Hasse, pp. 193-196
Chapter 22. Dave Brubeck and Stan Kenton: Alike and Unalike by Harry Frost, pp. 197-200
Chapter 23. Pops - Dave and Iola Brubeck - The Real Ambassadors by Steven A. Cerra and Ricky Riccardi, pp. 201-210
Chapter 24. The Real Ambassadors by Penny M. von Eschen, pp. 211-218
Chapter 25. The Real Ambassadors by Keith Hatschek, pp. 219-225
Chapter 26. Mr. Armstrong and Mr. Glasser - Gary Giddins, pp. 226-228
Chapter 27. Beyond Time Out - The Undiscovered Dave Brubeck by Steven A. Cerra, 229-237
Chapter 28. Dave Brubeck, Composer, by Leonard Feather, pp. 238-244
Chapter 29. A Quartet of Five (Dave Brubeck) by Gary Giddins, pp. 245-249
Chapter 30. Dave Brubeck: The Man on the Buffalo Nickel - Gene Lees, pp. 250-268
Chapter 31. Compadres with Brubeck and Mulligan - Jerome Klinkowitz, pp. 269-278
Chapter 32. “A Quarter Century Young: The Dave Brubeck Quartet,” Arnold J. Smith, DB March 25,1976, pp. 279-288
Epilogue - Dave Brubeck: The Smithsonian Oral History Program NEA Jazz Masters Interviews, pp. 289-352
Bibliography, pp. 353-360
Discography, pp. 361-364
