A 1962 concert recording from the White House, long believed lost, will be released at the end of May.
Two top jazz musicians, vocalist Tony Bennett and pianist Dave Brubeck performed on the same night with their bands 51 years ago at American president’s residence playing a concert for Kennedy family members and White House employees, where they played few standards together as well.
The concert footage was considered lost until last December when it was discovered at Sony Music Entertainment Group archives few weeks after Dave Brubeck’s death.
Brubeck played that night with a quartet with Paul Desmond on alto saxophone, Eugene Wright on bass and Joe Morello on drums, while Bennett was accompanied by pianist Ralph Sharon, bassist Hal Gaylord and drummer Billy Exner.
After that Washington concert Bennett and Brubeck shared the stage for the first time 47 years later at the 2009 Newport Jazz Festival when they played That Old Black Magic.
The album will be released under the name The White House Sessions, Live 1962 consisting of following compositions:
1. Introduction – William B. Williams
2. Take Five
3. Band introduction
4. Nomad
5. Thank You (Dziekuje)
6. Castilian Blues
(The Dave Brubeck Quartet)
7. Introduction – William B. Williams
8. Just In Time (from Bells Are Ringing)
9. Small World (from Gypsy)
10. Make Someone Happy (from Do Re Mi)
11. Rags To Riches
12. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) (from the RKO film, The Sky’s the Limit)
13. (I Left My Heart In) San Francisco
(Tony Bennett band)
14. Lullaby Of Broadway (from the Warner Bros./Vitaphone film, Golddiggers Of 1935)
15. Chicago (That Toddlin’ Town)
16. That Old Black Magic
17. There Will Never Be Another You (from the 20th Century-Fox film, Iceland)
(Tony Bennett with The Dave Brubeck Trio)