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Brubeck à la mode
1961 studio album by Dave Brubeck
Brubeck à la mode is 1960 studio album by pianist Dave Brubeck and his quartet.[2][3]
The album comprises compositions by the clarinetist Bill Smith; this was one of three albums that Brubeck and his quartet made with Smith.[3]
In Todd R. Decker's 2014 book Who Should Sing Ol' Man River?: The Lives of an American Song, Decker wrote that the album cover of Brubeck à la mode shows the "...smiling quartet sharing ice cream sodas at a picture-perfect ice cream fountain". Decker wrote how the cover frames the album within the context of the contemporaneous Civil Rights Movement; especially the Greensboro sit-ins and Nashville sit-ins which also took place at lunch counters.[4]