Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond -- Stardust

College of the Pacific, December 14, 1953. Paul Desmond began playing this tune professionally when he was with the Jack Fina band in 1949. It later became a staple of the early Brubeck quartets as Paul and Dave found many ways to improvise on it. There are at least 9 separate recordings of Desmond playing this tune and they are all different from each other; each has its own unique melodic variations and character. This one sat in Fantasy's tape vault for nearly 50 years. Taken at a slower tempo than the others, it may be the most complex and unusual of all of them. With Ron Crotty on bass and Joe Dodge on drums.

[@pamelawomack3076]

mornings have improved since I started listening to this beautiful jazz instead of the news

[@MokgatlaNakedi-ki2wr]

WOW - I am 100% with you. Cheers & Happy listening from South Africa ❤...

[@sitarnut]

Spot on...News='s the Blues. Also try Bill Evans, Paul Desmond with Ed Bickert in Canada and Wes Montgomery... Debussy and Ravel offer a full plate too.

[@TheOferwexenfeld]

news?what is news?

[@ScalerWave]

I was never a Jazz fan until listening to Paul Desmond.

[@danielfavre7741]

Paul Desmond is so expressive and unfolds so feeling that reaches our sensibility.

[@stevenlowel486]

When I first heard this piece, I was driving and I was only a couple blocks from home and got lost! This song is so hauntingly beautiful that I play it often before I sleep and I hear it in my dreams

[@Shaker626]

How long ago was that, may I ask?

[@AmazingMrWonderful]

I'm grateful to KZbin for making this masterpiece easily available to me.

[@jeremywheeler5522]

Just astonishingly beautiful in its inventive improvisation of perhaps the greatest melody ever written for a popular song by the talented Mr Hoagy Carmichael. At 83 I sit here and wonder about how such near perfection can exist in a world so totally screwed up by humanity.

[@karlirvine8774]

What a lie

[@The_Preacher_LLC]

I just want you to know. I grew up on Paul & Dave cause my old man played Paul. Did gigs in his early 20’s. Sounded just like him. Carnegie Hall was my bible. I was missing him so much today and vis just crusherd me missing my Pop. Im 40. You posting this, just made my day. I thank you. Take care.

[@marketccess1]

From Paul’s horn to God’s ears. How lucky for us to be in the audience!

[@MokgatlaNakedi-ki2wr]

WELL SAID ❤...

[@andybaldman]

We don't have anyone close to this today.

[@Franzie2105]

I could listen to Paul all my life. I love Paul Desmond.... ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@slonaut]

Astonishing. Paul Desmond and Chet Baker, those two... The album they made entitled "Together" is deep soul too.

[@bobfield1971]

What a beautiful solo by Paul. No one else sounds like this, Wow

[@DmPmRr1959]

Everything Paul Desmond played was GOLD!❤

[@SydLightbodyOfficialMusic9]

haven’t heard this since high school. chills the entire time. utterly genius

[@tommysfather]

In the wee early morning hours I couldn't possibly find any better music of this recording of Paul Desmond and the rest of Dave Brubeck's group to lull me back to sleep. I have it set to loop but I'll bet I will be gone during the first go around. Thanks Paul and to whoever did the upload.

[@williamneumyer7147]

Very nice combination of the cut with the photo montage.

[@fioredecor222]

MASTERPIECE - Elegant, sublime, and beautiful.

[@schotext]

This surely is one of most impressive solo's of Paul Desmond's recordings. It is of an ethereal beauty and tells a story with such an evocative imagination and infinitive fantasy that it again and again moves me in a way that I cannot really explain. Only take the decending figure at the end of his solo (3:58) and you can only stand in awe for this lyrical genius.

[@robinearle7225]

Artie Shaw was one of Paul Desmond's heroes, and Shaw's version of Stardust is commemorated here.

[@willjones3141]

this is one of the most beautiful songs i have ever heard in my entire life. how i wish i could play like dave did here, i hope i can, someday.

[@MBACCR]

This is Desmond and Brubeck at their elegant best.

[@old39timer]

Listen very carefully and you can hear Dave say "Yeah Beautiful" at the end of Pauls solo(How true).I have all nine recrdings that Dave and Paul made of this song,and still can't make up my mind which one I like best.

[@sitarnut]

Right on, friend.... me too.

[@MBACCR]

I'm guessing no two of them were the same.

[@robertomohundro7850]

What a wonderful conundrum for you!

[@ernestopereira5525]

Desmond was an admirable soloist. His performances of great pieces of jazz art are still fondly remembered today and, I hope, will be remembered per secula seculorum. Saudades Maestro!

[@bingoandtoto]

feeling like lying deep in the mountain looking at the starts in the night sky with absolute darkness

[@goldwing850108]

I bought my first album of Brubeck and Desmond back in 1954. I have ' Jazz at Storyville 1954'. Great songs ' On the Alamo', Here Lies Love', Don't worry 'bout Me'. Also have Jazz at Storyville recorded Oct. 2, 1952 with my favorite ' Over the Rainbow'. Brubecks album 'Jazz goes to Junior College ' has what I believe is the best arrangment of ' St. louis Blues' . Just my opinion. Heard lots of changes in music over my 76 years.

[@mikevar5487]

Dave’s solo sounds like something Rachmaninov would write. So beautiful. The whole piece.

[@artofcool9971]

Paul Desmond was, is and will be the greatest cool jazz alto-sax player. Unbelievable genius!

[@aaronsilva2282]

I like him too, but them's fightin' words!

[@dreamlover122769]

Johny Hodges too but no competition as you say he is great beyond belief

[@alvaro5805]

don't forget art pepper

[@SapphicTwist]

@@alvaro5805 and lee konitz

[@sitarnut]

No has cut him yet on Cool, Tone and his MIND for improvisation. On one of the LP's he quotes 7 other tune heads during his solo... and it's always as clever as heck. He truly Sings on Sax. Peace out.

[@sonnywarren]

I was 14 DAYS old when this was made ! 61 years later, still good !!

[@asafbeeri4037]

This is the ONE.

[@dattieo]

In a word, sublime...

[@philpryor7524]

Such a great song deserves the essential mastery of interpretation that is given here, as Desmond particular has a Bach touch, a sharp insight into the endless possibilities of recycling, rotating, interchanging inverting, reversing and rearranging all components...

[@MrJazzohjazz]

I always loved this tune by Dave and Paul ... I have not heard this particular version ... Thanks so much for posting it .. it is wonderful ...

[@toolagabriellebjornstrand2926]

Thanks for the music-rant. Desmond is the finest. Possibly because what he does is both exact and spontaneous, but never, never forced to be entertaining or odd.

[@user-jq1pd6qi5r]

Of you wake me in the middle of the night I'll recognize this beautifull unike sound

[@muymalo7651]

Paul knew how to blow his horn, this is supreme!

[@muymalo7651]

This is the tune composed by Hoagy Carmichael? He's not playing the melody, only using the chord progression to improvise, Charlie Parker style.

[@jasjjb]

This great version was unknown to me - does not happen very often when it comes to Brubeck and/or Desmond. Yet again, many thanks Frank for uploading this !!

[@albericoconceicaosantos4376]

Dave, you best songs, ambolive songs.

[@jans5331]

I have been a fan of Dave and Paul for some 60+ years. Never heard this superb number before but so happy I now did. Thanks !!

[@globglobobox6735]

I was born in Brazil, land of great composers, but I am very fond about american music. Since I was a child I used to hear the best of american music in the radios of Rio de Janeiro.

[@perdidoatlantic]

glob globobox I’m raised in America & I love Gal Costa. Brazil has fantastic music.

[@annbromberg9380]

This takes me back to my childhood in NY and listening to Dave ?brubeck just great

[@dillank3240]

This is one of my favourite songs on one of my favourite albums of all time. They were so very good. I wish I could have been there, but my mom was 5 years old when this was recorded.

[@cheri238]

Brubeck and Paul Desmond are on my playlist also. Never left a comment here. GREAT JAZZ MUSICIANS. Really? I THINK SO.❤️🔥

[@marlae.hutchinson292]

This is beautiful a nice escape from the world 😇🙏🏽

[@ronward3949]

So Training, Performing, and Ambitions became Legends!

[@juancarloszuniga5737]

JOE MORELLO de gran aporte , cuando formaron el cuarteto famozo y triunfador, del jazz eterno que tanto nos gusta

[@kocn53]

El baterista en esta pista es JOE DODGE.

[@espr7564]

Beautiful RIP Paul

[@glendoug100]

A truly wonderful book, a must for Desmond fans, or Jazz fans in general !!

[@bjornjanlert1013]

absolut - underbar jazzmusik - ju äldre ja blir desto skönare klingar den här musiken ,,,

[@maxhilaire212]

A feast for the ears! Genius!

[@NotMiles]

Most inventive and captivating. Thanks for sharing.

[@dreamlover122769]

thanks ever so much for posting this beautiful rendition of an already beautiful creation they and Paul do it so much justice

[@arthurkim6733]

Two geniuses together

[@fosbury68]

Oh to have been in the audience that winter night in Stockton. Sheer perfection. God bless Dave, Paul, Ron and Joe.

[@brucekuehn4031]

The nightingale tells his fairytale A paradise where roses bloom

[@russhamer]

So beautiful! All of them...Paul's solo is rich, lush and full of harmonic surprize. Dave's solo is gorgeous. They were unabashedly comfortable with collectively reveling in the sheer beauty of the piece with no need for egoistic display of chops. Another time for sure....

[@da19lila38]

The version is really great and the photo at 2.50 is really great too...And it's so nice to see them all smiling at 6.00-6.45 and again 7.40 - the end is wonderful...Bliss!

[@pmwizard48]

The Time Out album is still fresh sounding to this day by the Dave Brubeck quartet.

[@laurafort1]

grande Paul Desmond- una voce stupenda e inconfondibile con il suo sax contralto-

[@62blueglow]

76 years of listening to good jazz then you must know some stuff

[@user-cx5pl2tu2h]

My parents had a 78 rpm record of Hoagy Carmichaels "Stardust". Forget who the singer or band were. But it was a lovely pop song, back then. They also had Hogy Carmichael record, not sure of exact title, "I'm Giong Overboard with a Capital O", is main lyric. ❤ P.S. i couldn't relate to the interpretation, however, it is pretty Cool, . 😎

[@arthurkim6733]

brilliantly

[@muhammadshakoor8745]

Excellent tune!

[@zephyrsimon]

best version!

[@tinakurtidi7956]

Beautiful

[@Yummynoodle12]

you can just hear the emotion behind the playing at 3:35

[@dalewatkins1571]

Makes me think of my dear dad reggie ❤

[@danielslade9485]

Hands, heart valves and faces

[@prizmetrix]

Actually, Fantasy, which Brubeck started, didn't even have the master tape as Dave found out years later....they had lost them! This tape of the entire concert was in Brubeck's possession, given to him by the college, after the performance and he had forgotten he had it until discovered in an old box years later.

[@kocn53]

Jan, Thanks for that tidbit, which I did not know. What someone could now easily provide, and I would love to see, is the listing of the order in which the tunes were performed at this concert. I even contacted the Fantasy complex when this was released in an attempt to find this out, but of course got nowhere.

[@joeblogs8204]

wish i could project the gentleness of this tune on my trumpet

[@musicola7371]

Stardust - Clark Terry 1967, on KZbin. This composition was inspired by the improvisations on cornet of Bix Beiderbecke.

[@fosbury68]

magical

[@deanpsp555]

[@CHARVA929]

Yeah beautiful...!

[@FishBait-ug6ek]

Time to get a Bluetooth speaker for the kitchen. My phone will work for now. Another cold beer is in order for this song .

[@TheOferwexenfeld]

very very nice tnxalot

[@robertowagner5883]

I was expecting to hear Stardust being executed by this admirable "quartet" but .................. they played something else. !

[@chita1205]

CAMINHO DE SEDA PARA O CÉU

[@Damush1]

Watta beauty X

[@arthurkim6733]

Два гения вместе - Two geniuses together

[@micro77s]

Thanks so much. I was confusing the “Jazz At Oberlin” album with Vol. 1 of the College At Pacific. No worries now -- I have had this recording for years and didn’t even know it. Guess I need to listen to Vol. 2 more often -- : D

[@christinearmington]

I still treasure a jazz album pressed red from my Oberlin teacher, Arthur Dann. He taught classical but his jazz playing was wonderful!

[@user-kd3kr1vu9o]

Красота и логика

[@MBACCR]

2:20 to 2:35... incredible.

[@jeremywheeler5522]

Just one more thing. There are quite a few recordings of Stardust by Brubeck & his qurtet. All different but none come close to the beauty of this one.

[@welcometothejungleeu]

thanks

[@chita1205]

PAUL DESMOND

[@62blueglow]

wow 76 years then you know some stuff

[@anitadavideduo]

Bellooo!!

[@TheEdie1958]

Akin to Chopin's nocturnes and strings in adaggio as lyrical as a sunrise and sunset the song in fiddler on the roof.

[@luisitosax]

@kocn53 Thanks so much for your input! I also think that Desmond is unique.

[@andreamattos8138]

Meu Deus só agora ouvi!

[@BrianToothbrush64]

I hear Debussy in the piano solo... Wonderful

[@keithpurduecroft]

Four Giants.

[@kaisergrandz4191]

amen

[@kocn53]

@luisitosax If you really want to learn as much as possible about what made Desmond the unique genius that he was, I strongly recommend the "Take Five" biography by Doug Ramsey, who knew Paul for many years. It is packed full of fascinating details of Desmond's life.

[@1948BigCy]

@luisitosax Do you have the duet album he did with Gerry Mulligan from 1958 I think? "Blues in Time"...an early breakaway attempt from Brubeck, I've never heard Paul play better (when you are familiar with an artist's music, you feel that you know them and are free to call them by their first names!)...his playing sounds as fresh and alive today as it did when he played it at that midnight session 53 years ago...truly timeless...

[@DavidFuentes-yk6su]

Muito bom

[@luisitosax]

I hear that Paul Desmond, even that he was mainly a Jazz Saxophonist, he always had a semiclassical sound. Is that true? I love his sound and he was my main isnpiration to learn saxophone as a child.

[@lawrencemuller8972]

It is very true.

[@noshcocologue1106]

1972 CGI animation kicked me here

[@glendoug100]

No one like him !!

[@davidkinzer3410]

PAU8L DESMOND SQUEEZES THE NOTES OUT LIKR A TUBE OF TOOTH PASTJUST SLIDES

[@Saxman1219]

bfizzledizzle, the drummers use brushes, which they drag across the drum head to get that effect, as opposed to striking the head.

[@saulduff493]

Was there ever a vinyl publishing of this recording? Scoured the internet but can't find one sadly

[@claudiochustmartinez5782]

😌👏