tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6853772569125614798.post5887819841526351887..comments2024-03-28T03:13:32.555-07:00Comments on JazzProfiles: Brubeck at OberlinUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6853772569125614798.post-68578006270436285072019-06-18T11:43:52.678-07:002019-06-18T11:43:52.678-07:00Fascinating article. I grew up listening to this a...Fascinating article. I grew up listening to this album which was in my late father's collection and was his favourite. We lived on a farm in the countryside but my dad was music and hi fi mad so had some of the first giant Bang & Olufsen speakers in Britain...you could hear them for miles away played at full blast! He had the theory that there had been a difficult vibe in the band that evening (possibly explained by Crotty's illness) and that Brubeck and Desmond had actually tried to outplay each other in their solos - you can hear one of them cry out twice at one stage but when I became a young journalist on a local paper and wrote a part-time jazz column, I got tickets to see Brubeck in Manchester and was invited back-stage. When I asked the great man about this theory he said quite a few people had asked him about it but that there was 'no truth in that rumour'...I was too young and over awed to take the matter any further but I still listen to that album to this day and think it's one of the greatest!Nik Woodhttp://goodcallmedia.comnoreply@blogger.com