Dave Brubeck Quartet - Brother Can You Spare A Dime

[lakisdiako1]

BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME(Harburg-Gorney) from:Dave Brubeck Quartet:”Brubeck Time”. EXCELLENT! EXCELLENT! with this music of Dave & Paul I started to learn alto and I play until now (I am 70). 100% jazz!!!

[stuarthants]

Dave Brubeck recorded a moving and inventive solo piano version - as if to correct this lapse. But I love a lot of the quartet's work. They're the most class musicians ever.

[MrMarconi100]

Beautiful jazz treatment and very listenable, although the 'swing' seems a little inappropiate given the nature of the song, albeit an instrumental version. If you haven't as yet, I recommend you check out the stunning vocal version by....wait for it.....George Michael!  You'll find it here on YouTube and on the George Michael album "Songs for the new depression". Musically & spiritually very moving.

[jethomme]

@MrMarconi100 I so agree. Beautiful work, but somehow loses the Gorney (music) and Harburg (words) intent. That is, folks who believed, worked, fought, and were left out by the banks. Difference today is FDR put people to work while this government has thus far forsaken common folks.

[MyohoSound]

Good jazz as always Mr Brubeck, but for me a better modern adaption is the Dr John and Odetta version here on YouTube. This one just doesn't convey any poignancy.

[MrLeefan]

The Legend is born

[boxesbeforebuddha]

This is the most optimistic version of this song I've heard. I love Brubeck and Desmond, but I don't think they conveyed the emotion this song intends.

[upquist1]

@boxesbeforebuddha I'd agree. It's beautiful but it doesn't quite capture the mood of the piece. Listen to Tom Waits' version here on You Tube.

[gordonferry]

This is a really smart, effective and moving pairing of my favorite Brubeck piece with some of the Walker Evans photographs (although some are not I believe). Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. If ever a book was destined for an arranged marriage with a soundtrack -- Brother Can You Spare a Dime would be the centerpiece of such an arrangement. Interesting that the home base of the submitter is The United Kingdom far from the American South of the 1930s. And one of my favorite places.