Atlantic Jazz W 7567-81382-2 (35 minutes:

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George Wein recalls in the notes that Brubeck's set on that July night of the 1971 Newport Jazz Festival was preceded by a loud and well-received jazz-rock band: a fact, he suggests, that coloured the quartet's own playing. The audience certainly responded with enthusiasm, and choosing a long blues and then Take Five obviously did the group no harm, but the main musical effect of the night's circumstances on Brubeck was that he played even more downright rhythmically—you might almost say thumpingly—than usual. Mulligan's dry baritone lines made Take Five more sinewy than the versions with Paul Desmond, and altogether it was a good night for him, if not a particularly demanding one. TR