“George Avakian’s sleeve note recounted the story of Brubeck—by then a father of five—calling him from a phone booth in Disneyland during a family outing. Had things panned out in accordance with their initial telephone conversation, Columbia would have released an album called Jazz Goes to Disneyland, with a front cover featuring all five Brubeck children posing next to a Disneyland exhibit alongside their father’s quartet. But rights issues (Disney already owned their own Disneyland record label) and someone’s suggestion for an attractively alliterative album title handed us the record we know: Dave Digs Disney, with, on its front cover, a beaming Dave surrounded by pencil sketches of Mickey Mouse, Pluto, and Donald Duck."
