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Brahms Lullaby
Over The Rainbow
1 Brahms Lullaby  
2 When It's Sleepy Time Down South  
3 Over The Rainbow  
4 Danny Boy  
5 Going to Sleep  
6 There's No Place Like Home  
7 Lullaby For Iola  
8 Koto Song  
9 All Through the Night  
10 Softly, William, Softly  
11 A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes  
12 Briar Bush  
13 Sleep  
14 Summertime  
15 Brahms Lullaby (Reprise)  
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Verve Records announces the release of Lullabies, a collection of familiar songs and original compositions for the entire family from a giant of American jazz, Dave Brubeck. The last recorded solo album from the inimitable musician, the album showcases his signature improvisational style on well-known children's songs, beloved standards and originals. 

Dave recorded this serene collection of music as a gift to his grandchildren and as his last studio recording.  His ingenuity and integrity, all hallmarks of great Brubeck recordings, are abundantly apparent on the album.  The set contains covers and originals that will appeal to existing jazz and Dave Brubeck fans, as it exhibits his innovative style over delicate, inviting compositions that will also be enjoyed by the entire family.  At the time of the recording, Brubeck commented on the project and his hopes for the compilation. "Some of the melodies on this album are like those familiar songs," says Brubeck.  "Some are original pieces that I thought would appeal to babies as well as an older generation. I hope the littlest ones will respond to this music, and that parents and grandparents will enjoy it as well."

  • Can Dave Brubeck's 'Cantata' bring black and jewish communities together? / DAILY BEAST
    Posted At: March 25, 2023
    “The Gates of Justice,” Brubeck’s 1969 masterwork, gets revived with his sons in tow, and reopens a conversation Americans need to have.DAILY BEAST - Larry Blumenfeld writes…..In late February at Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles, Remy Ohara, a UCLA music student, sounded a shofar, the ram’s horn usually used for High Holiday services at Jewish temples—first in short blasts, then longer sustaine...

  • 'Lullabies' is a lovely farewell from Dave Brubeck / the arts fuse
    Posted At: December 31, 2020

    Lullabies on Verve Records, a collection of familiar songs and original compositions for the entire family from a giant of American jazz, Dave Brubeck is the last recorded solo album from the inimitable musician. The album showcases Brubeck's signature improvisational style on well-known children's songs, beloved standards and originals.  Dave recorded this serene collection of...

  • Honoring the centennial birthday of his late father; Dave Brubeck, Chris Brubeck discusses 'Lullabies' with California's 'Estero Bay Radio'
    Posted At: December 16, 2020

    Verve Records release of Lullabies, a collection of familiar songs and original compositions for the entire family from a giant of American jazz, Dave Brubeck, was the last recorded solo album from the inimitable musician. The album showcases DB's signature improvisational style on well-known children's songs, beloved standards and originals.  Dave recorded this serene collecti...

  • Dave Brubeck's 'Lullabies' makes KCRW: Rhythm Planet 'New Tunes to Close Out the Year'
    Posted At: December 15, 2020

    The Verve Records release of Lullabies, a collection of familiar songs and original compositions for the entire family from a giant of American jazz, Dave Brubeck was the last recorded solo album from the inimitable musician, the album showcases his signature improvisational style on well-known children's songs, beloved standards and originals.  Dave recorded this serene colle...

  • Dave Brubeck at 100: A Take Five Celebration with WBGO
    Posted At: December 4, 2020

    Pianist-composer Dave Brubeck was born on Dec. 6, 1920. His centennial year has brought its share of tributes and closer looks - including a biography, Philip Clark's Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time (featured in our Gift Guide), and an in-depth essay by Dr. Lewis Porter, (published under Deep Dive). WBGO will celebrate Brubeck's birthday on the air this Sunday, as Michael Bourne plays his music on Singe...

  • Take some Time Out to celebrate 100 years of Dave Brubeck with 90.1WRTI
    Posted At: November 25, 2020

    It was 1959-a pivotal year for jazz as a whole, but for Dave Brubeck it was utterly life changing. After years of college tours he had a smash hit album, Time Out, with his quartet and has been a household name ever since. Join us starting on Monday, November 30th for a week-long celebration of the centennial anniversary of the birth of Dave Brubeck. We'll have special programming leading up to his birth...

  • Dave Brubeck's 'Lullabies' is a great record when it comes to introducing children to the world of jazz / STAGEANDCINEMA
    Posted At: November 13, 2020

    Not long before the great Mr. Dave Brubeck drifted off to eternal sleep one day before his 92nd birthday, he had left for us a final album of soft jazzy lullabies to guide us into peace. Awesome! We teared up at not just the loveliness of the tunes, but that Brubeck is almost playing an elegy for himself. At 91, Brubeck recorded these "children's songs" as a gift to his grandchildren, but there's nothing...

  • Dave Brubeck's 'Lullabies' plays like a soundtrack to half-remembered dreams, melodies floating in and out of focus through clouds of harmonic invention and lush textures / London JazzNews
    Posted At: November 6, 2020

    In his liner notes to this typically unassuming album, Dave Brubeck remembers his mother playing to him and his siblings as they drifted off to sleep, a practice he later continued with his own children and grandchildren. Brubeck's mother also believed in prenatal influence, playing music to her children in the womb. There's something, evidently, about hearing music in a kind of peripheral consciousness ...

  • Lullabies for adults by Dave Brubeck / Het Parool
    Posted At: November 6, 2020

    Too white, too rational, too square. Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, who died in 2012 one day before his 92nd birthday, has been the target of much criticism in his long career. But he did make the best-known jazz song of all time with Take Five ; the introduction to the genre for entire tribes. And he was a very inventive pianist, always surrounded by top musicians. Sleep-inducing, has Brubeck's musi...

  • In honor of the pianist's centennial, Brubeck Editions will issue 'Time OutTakes,' an album featuring alternate versions of iconic 1959 tracks / RollingStone
    Posted At: September 24, 2020

    "Take Five," a 1959 track by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, was always a musical oddity: a swinging, instantly catchy jazz piece written in the uncommon time signature of 5/4. But it was also a huge hit and the first platinum-selling single in jazz history. Roughly 61 years after the release of "Take Five" on Brubeck's Time Out album, the late pianist's estate will release TimeOutTakes, a new album of pre...
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