''Brubeck à la mode'' is 1960 studio album by pianist

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and his quartet. The album comprises compositions by the clarinetist Bill Smith; this was one of three albums that Brubeck and his quartet made with Smith. In Todd R. Decker's 2014 book ''Who Should Sing Ol' Man River?: The Lives of an American Song'', Decker wrote that the album cover of ''Brubeck à la mode'' shows the "...smiling quartet sharing ice cream sodas at a picture-perfect ice cream fountain". Decker wrote how the cover frames the album within the context of the contemporaneous Civil Rights Movement; especially the

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which also took place at lunch counters.

Reception

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wrote that "the music generally swings and there are some fine solos but none of the individual pieces are all that memorable". ''Billboard'' magazine reviewed the album in their January 16, 1961, issue and wrote, "The music is swinging, alive and comes from Smith's pen. Brubeck plays simply and movingly on these sides as do the members of his group."

Track listing

''All compositions by Bill Smith except otherwise noted'': # "Dorian Dance" – 3:28 # "Peace, Brother" (

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, Bill Smith) – 3:55 # "Invention" – 4:57 # "Lydian Line" – 5:25 # "Catch-Me-If-You-Can" – 1:45 # "Frisco Fog" – 6:01 # "The Piper" – 2:47 # "Soliloquy" – 3:26 # "One for the Kids" – 3:11 # "Ballade" – 3:58

Personnel

* Dave Brubeck -

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

* Bill Smith -

clarinet The clarinet is a Single-reed instrument, single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore (wind instruments), bore and a flared bell. Clarinets comprise a Family (musical instruments), family of instrume ...

Eugene Wright Eugene Joseph Wright (May 29, 1923 – December 30, 2020) was an American jazz bassist who was a member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Career Wright was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was a cornetist at high school and led the 16-piece band D ...

double bass The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...

Joe Morello Joseph Albert Morello (July 17, 1928 – March 12, 2011) was an American jazz drummer best known for serving as the drummer for pianist Dave Brubeck, as part of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, from 1957 to 1972, including during the quartet's "clas ...

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

;Technical * Bob Willoughby - cover photography

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