Dave Brubeck ~~~ La Paloma Azul, recorded LIVE in Mexico, 1967

La Paloma Azul photo sequence:

1. La Paloma sheet music
2. The Blue Dove of unflinching true love
3. San Sebastián, viewed from Igeldo
4. Iglesia San Telmo, or Church of San Telmo, on the Basque coast near Zumaia.
5. Macizo de Aitzkorri, from Urbia meadows. Aizkorri or Aitzgorri in Basque means 'bare stone'.
6. Hondarribia, is a town situated on the west shore of Bidasoa river's mouth, in Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain.
7. Macizo de Aitzkorri - please see above.
8. Horses in Bianditz mountain Navarre, Basque Country, an autonomous community in northern Spain.
9. Lanciego - La Paloma composer's birthplace - a town and municipality located in the province of Álava, in the Basque Country, northern Spain.
10. Sebastián Iradier, the composer himself !
11. Legunde Arabako laudata aratz aizkorri - yikes ! - whatever that means ! But the famous Arabako Txakolina wine region is situated in the province of Álava and covers an area of some 50 hectares.
12. Basque country, beautiful.
13. Basque country, France gallery - stolen from the Sydney Morning Herald's Travel section !
14. Macizo de Aitzkorri - please see above.
15. The great Altoist Paul Desmond.
16. Paul Desmond in studio.
17. Paul Desmond
18. Paul Desmond
19. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Paul Desmond on alto sax.
20. Paul Desmond
21. Dave Brubeck at piano.
22. Dave Brubeck - older
23. The great Joe Morello
24. Casa de la Trova, Santiago, Cuba - a local musical house.
25. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Eugene Wright on upright bass, Joe Morello on drums, Paul Desmond on alto sax, Dave Brubeck on piano, as always.
26. Dave Brubeck - solo
27. Dave Brubeck with young students.
28. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Joe, Eugene, Dave, Paul.
29. Clint "stick 'em up" Eastwood and Dave Brubeck.
30. Cuban tobacco farm, where those mouth cancer-causing cigars hail from.
31. Beach on Cayo Largo del Sur in the Canarreos archipelago.
32. The Catedral de la Virgen María de la Concepción Inmaculada de La Habana (Cathedral of The Virgin Mary of the Immaculate Conception), a Roman Catholic Cathedral constructed by Jesuits (1748--77), and it is also dedicated to Saint Christopher (San Cristóbal), thus it is sometimes dubbed the Cathedral of Saint Christopher.
33. Dave Brubeck (cropped from a photo with trumpeting great Wynton Marsalis)
34. Cuban countryside
35. Icelandic girl visiting Cuba on determined quest to catch Mr D Vitamin, whilst fending off Messrs Melanoma in the same breath !
36. Cuba, landscape photo, courtesy of: http://www.freepicturesfreepictures.com/
37. Bravo! Brubeck! LP album cover.

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• 1967

[jesus84639]

UN RAZGO DE DESMOND, NOSTALGICO SU SONIDO, ENORME, NO HAY OTRO EN SU ESTILO

[manfreadfilms]

@jesus84639 Thank you my friend, glad you enjoyed ! Timeless piece that spans two cultures... words fail me, :) Actually, three cultures.

[daisiesnbuttercups]

What a captivating saxophone solo... And your pictures...TY.

[manfreadfilms]

@daisiesnbuttercups Thank you - i'm very happy you enjoyted. This music is timeless, absolutely divine. Yes Paul Desmond, something special. Thanks. :)

[Bidyyy]

very nice...........!!!!!!!

[manfreadfilms]

@Bidyyy Thank you Ernest & Sarah !!! It's a timeless piece this, so incredibly beautiful, imho, and soothes my battered tattered frayed nerves !! :))

[manfreadfilms]

@omitnot Lol - i like that - 'netosphere' ! :) I'm with you, Brubeck's music is excellent, but this recording, to me it has a kind of mythical otherworldly thing about it; what i'm trying to say is it encapsulates seemingly where he - the composer - is from: Basque country in northern Spain, and there's something about the region's natural beauty that seduces and intoxicates; somehow he caught this in the music... thanks again my friend !! :)

[daisiesnbuttercups]

Bucolic. Mythical.  Timeless...

[geggenhuizen]

Can you send me the sheet music.

[omitnot]

@manfreadfilms ahh...the basque country! well, my friend, another checkmate!