Dad Plays the Harmonica

Reminiscences of the Cattle Country is a reminiscence of my early days on the ranch, which my father managed and where i worked after school and summers as a cowhand. In the evenings my father often played the harmonica (cowboy style) and my mother played the piano (classical style). These two diverse traditions produced in me a jazz style that was individual, and a compositional style that is an amalgam of a variety of early influences. These compositions, written in 1946, were my first pieces for piano not in the jazz idiom of the blues or popular song form. I was then a student of Darius Milhaud at Mills College in Oakland, California.

Lista utworów:
Sun Up (Brubeck Dave)
Breaking a Wild Horse (Brubeck Dave)
The Fairgrounds (Brubeck Dave)
Look at My Pony (Brubeck Dave)
The Chickens and the Ducklings (Brubeck Dave)
Dad Plays the Harmonica (Brubeck Dave)

Contents: Brubeck: Dad Plays the Harmonica • Cowell: Exultation, The Lilt of the Reel • Dello Joio: Salute to Scarlatti (No. 1 from A Suite of Sonatas) • Harris: Andante Ostinato from Sonata for Piano • Helps: Song (from In Retrospect) • Hovhaness: Mountain Idylls (Moon Dance, Mountain Lullaby) • Husa: Allegretto moderato from Sonatina • Ives: The Alcotts from Piano Sonata No. 2 (Concord) • Jenni: A Game of Dates, Nos. 1 and 3 • Johnson: Spaces • Wyner: Short Fantasy No. 3.