The Dave Brubeck Quartet

The Dave Brubeck Quartet was a US piano-led jazz group active from 1951 to 1967, noted for blending cool jazz and West Coast jazz elements with rhythmic experimentation, particularly the use of unconventional time signatures, and for the lyrical interplay between Dave Brubeck's piano and Paul Desmond's alto saxophone; the quartet's sound was supported by a steady rhythm section that often included drummer Joe Morello and bassist Eugene Wright.