Dave Brubeck Quartet - Dave Digs Disney (1957) Vinyl LP • Heigh-Ho, Jazz

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Vinyl plays with occasional crackles (play-graded). Cover has a few creases near edges, and moderate scuffing (front/back); back has slight discoloration with darker spots and a name written near top right corner. Inner-sleeve is generic white. Spine is partly readable with wear and a split near center. Some shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners. Top-edge partially split from corner; bottom edge has smaller split. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. '6-eye' red Columbia label. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

1. Alice In Wonderland
2. Give A Little Whistle
3. Heigh-Ho
4. When You Wish Upon A Star
5. Some Day My Prince Will Come
6. One Song

About The Record:

Dave Digs Disney, by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, is a delightful and inventive 1957 studio album that transforms classic songs from Disney animated films like Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs into sophisticated modern jazz pieces, inspired by a family trip to Disneyland and the quartet's existing habit of playing Disney tunes live; historically notable as one of the earliest examples of a major jazz group treating these supposedly lightweight melodies with serious artistic respect—at a time when doing so was considered a financial gamble—this release helped legitimize Disney material within the jazz world and influenced later artists, with standout fan-favorite tracks including the playful Heigh-Ho (The Dwarfs' Marching Song), the lyrical When You Wish Upon a Star, and especially Some Day My Prince Will Come, which Brubeck helped elevate into a lasting jazz standard later famously explored by Miles Davis, making the album one of the Quartet's most enduring and beloved recordings for its creative arrangements and effortless ensemble chemistry.