Product Review

Remastered for the first time using the original two-track analog tapes, the 40th Anniversary Edition of Pure Desmond is packaged in a softpack sleeve that replicates the original LP and its iconic cover design. Down Beat s 1975 review of the album declared This consummate set of performances is pure Desmond ... personal and compelling interpretations which dazzle because of his romantic tonal warmth and classic structural simplicity ... Member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet and writer of their iconic song Take Five, Desmond was voted by Down Beat s readers into its Jazz Hall of Fame in 1977.