Mr. Media Interviews By Bob Andelman

(From 1984) When executives at Fantasy Records decided the time was ripe to re-release their entire catalog of early Dave Brubeck recordings, they found a surprise in their vaults. “The first 10 or 12 LPs on Fantasy Records are all me because I started the company,” Brubeck recalled recently. “The young guys that I would talk to hardly knew. They were really amazed when they found the first recordings which started the company (of) my trio, the octet or the quartet.”