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Jazz at Oberlin is a live album by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. It was recorded in the Finney Chapel at Oberlin College in March 1953, and initially released on Fantasy Records as F-3245.

by William J. Crotty (Editor)

Vince Guaraldi was a well-respected jazz pianist whose greatest success came from avenues usually closed to contemporary jazz artists: he enjoyed a hit single at a time when jazz had largely been exiled from the pop charts, and he scored a series of very successful animated television specials (namely the Charlie Brown seasonal specials scores and soundtracks for which his name has become synonymous), a medium where cookie-cutter pop music was traditionally the order of the day.

Another volume in Fantasy/Concord's Plays for Lovers is this set by Dave Brubeck, mostly recorded in the 1950s with two tracks from a set with his sons in 1985. The lion's share of material here, however, is culled from an album of Brubeck playing solo on a 1957 album entitled Plays and Plays and…. The cuts from here – "I'm Old Fashioned," "Love Is Here to Stay," "Imagination," and "I See Your Face Before Me" – are deeply romantic and lush despite the spare setting. There are also two unaccompanied solo pieces from the Dave Brubeck Quartet with Paul Desmond from 1952 and 1954.

Jazz At College Of The Pacific is the 1954 album by The Dave Brubeck Quartet. Brubeck is joined by Paul Desmond (alto saxophone), Ron Crotty (bass), and Joe Dodge (drums) at the College Of The Pacific in Stockton, California on 14 December, 1953. Originally released on Fantasy, this was released by Original Jazz Classics/Fantasy Jazz in 1987, remastered by Joe Tarantino.

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