
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz: Red Hot And Cool
Jazz: Red Hot and Cool is a jazzlive album by The Dave Brubeck Quartet. It was recorded during one 1954 and two 1955 performances at the Basin Street East club in New York City.[1] Released originally in 1955, this album was remastered and reissued in 2001, while adding two tracks that were not included in the original album.[2]
This album presents the pre-classic Quartet with Bob Bates on bassand Joe Dodge on drums backing pianist Dave Brubeck and alto saxophonist Paul Desmond,[1]before the bassist Eugene Wrightand drummer Joe Morello joined the most experimental Brubeck Quartet of the sixties.
As a result, on the strength of complex chords of Brubeck and the remarkably cool tone of Desmond, relaxing and calming, Bates and Dodge focus on giving a swinging, but solid and quiet accompaniment to the quartet, without disrupting the discursive flow of ideas between the pianist and the altoist.