This release presents the long unavailable original studio album Jazz Impressions of U.S.A. by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, appearing here for the first time ever on CD. As a bonus, we offer two rare quartet performances which only previously appeared on long out of print compilation LPs.
All compositions by Dave Brubeck except Two Sleepy People (Hoagy Carmichael-Frank Loesser) and Pilgrim's Progress (Dave Brubeck-Pail Desmond).
Recorded in New York, November 16 & 26, 1956, and in Oakland, California, February 4, 1957.
(*) BONUS TRACKS 9: Same personnel. Los Angeles, October 24, 1957. 10: Joe Dodge (d) replaces Morello. Live in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, August 2, 1956.