Plays and Plays and...

Studio album by Dave Brubeck

Released

Mid October 1957^[1]

Recorded

February 8, 1957
Dave Brubeck Home, Oakland

Genre

Jazz

Length

38:00

Label

Fantasy
F 3259

Dave Brubeck chronology

Jazz Impressions of the U.S.A.
(1956)

Plays and Plays and...
(1957)

Dave Digs Disney
(1957)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Plays and Plays and... is a jazz album by pianist Dave Brubeck. It's Brubeck's second solo piano album (the first being Brubeck Plays Brubeck). It was originally released on Fantasy Records in 1957. The cover artwork was created by Arnold Roth.

Plays and Plays and... mainly features old standards, most of which improvised on the spot, or rehearsed roughly. "To me," Brubeck says, "improvisation is the core of the jazz. [...] Only through improvisation jazz is going to survive. When there is not complete freedom of the soloist, it ceases to be jazz." "Sweet Cleo Brown", one of the two Brubeck originals on the album, is dedicated to pianist Cleo Patra Brown, who had a great influence on him. Brubeck first met her in 1941, during a performance in a club. "She had the fastest left hand I've ever heard, except for Tatum's. [...] It was mostly from her I learned the importance of the left hand fulfilling the role of the string bass." Brubeck's favourite piece on Plays and Plays and... is "Imagination".^[3]

Track listing

"Sweet Cleo Brown" (Dave Brubeck) - 3:56
"I'm Old Fashioned" (Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer) - 5:00
"Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 2:51
"Indian Summer" (Victor Herbert, Al Dubin) - 3:51
"In Search of a Theme" (Brubeck) - 2:29
"You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Cole Porter) - 2:29
"I See Your Face Before Me" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) - 4:58
"They Say It's Wonderful" (Irving Berlin) - 2:43
"Imagination" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) - 6:12
"Two Sleepy People" (Carmichael, Loesser) - 3:31 Bonus track on CD

Personnel

Dave Brubeck - piano

References

↑ Billboard Oct 28, 1957
↑ Allmusic review
↑ Original liner notes by Russ Wilson

Dave Brubeck

1940s	Brubeck Trio with Cal Tjader, Volume 1 (1949) Brubeck Trio with Cal Tjader, Volume 2 (1949)

1950s	Dave Brubeck Octet (1950) The Dave Brubeck Quartet (1952) Jazz at Oberlin (1953) Jazz at the College of the Pacific (1953) Jazz Goes to College (1954) Brubeck Time (1955) Jazz: Red Hot and Cool (1955) Dave Brubeck at Storyville: 1954 (1955) Brubeck Plays Brubeck (1956) Dave Brubeck and Jay & Kai at Newport (1956) Jazz Impressions of the U.S.A. (1956) Plays and Plays and... (1957) Dave Digs Disney (1957) Jazz Impressions of Eurasia (1958) Newport 1958 Gone with the Wind (1959) Time Out (1959)

1960s	Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein (1960) Brubeck and Rushing (1960) Time Further Out (1961) The Real Ambassadors (1962) Countdown—Time in Outer Space (1962) Bossa Nova U.S.A. (1963) At Carnegie Hall (1963) Time Changes (1963) Jazz Impressions of Japan (1964) Jazz Impressions of New York (1964) Angel Eyes (1965) My Favorite Things (1965) Dave Brubeck's Greatest Hits (1966) Time In (1966) Anything Goes (1966) Bravo! Brubeck! (1967) The Last Time We Saw Paris (1967) Compadres (1968) Blues Roots (1969)

1970s	Live at the Berlin Philharmonie (1970) The Last Set at Newport Another step forward (1971) We're All Together Again for the First Time (1973) Two Generations of Brubeck (1973) Brubeck & Desmond 1975: the Duets All The Things We Are (1976) DBQ 25th Anniversary Reunion (1976) The New Brubeck Quartet Live at Montreux (1978) Back Home (1979)

1980s	Tritonis (1980) Paper Moon (1982) Concord on a Summer Night (1982) For Iola (1984) Blue Rondo (1987) Moscow Night (1987) The Great Concerts (1988)

1990s	Quiet As the Moon (1991) Late Night Brubeck (1994) Just You, Just Me (1994) A Dave Brubeck Christmas (1996) The 40th Anniversary Tour of the U.K. (1999)

2000s	One Alone (2000) Park Avenue South (2003) London Flat, London Sharp (2005)

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