I recently saw the Dave Brubeck Quartet in concert with the Russian National Orchestra at the Ironstone Vineyard in Murphys, California (July 2002). It was the best concert I have ever attended. Really, and I've seen a lot of acts in Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe. It was as if an orchestra/big band showed up in your backyard and played for you and your friends. Totally cool, totally sophisticated, played by consumate professional musicians that know their instruments inside and out. This was not a modern concert of this week's star cursing at the audience and calling it art. You really sense the music resonates to the core of each individual in the Quartet and the orchestra, playing it with such skill, knowledge, and insight on so many levels that it sends chills through your body. I don't know how many times I said to myself during this concert, "Man, these guys are good." The Ironstone concert started with the Russian National Orchestra opening with Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, making way for the Dave Brubeck Quartet's entrance as these grey beard's kicked it up a gear and the whole place began to swing. Backed by the orchestra, the Dave Brubeck Quartet dug into Summer Music, Salute to the Count, Take Five, Take the A Train, and Blue Rondo Ala Turk. I would kill to have this concert or a similar concert on DVD and only hope that it will be produced, a great jazz man working with the material that made him famous, backed by a full orchestra (I highly recommend Dave Brubeck's 80th Birthday CD with the London Symphony Orchestra, which captures much of the concert I describe above). Until that happens, and I really, really hope Dave's production people are working at putting a DVD like this together, Dave Brubeck in Moscow is a good bet for the backstage scenes and Blue Rondo Ala Turk. It will give you a good sense of the decency of this man and a measure of the timeless music he makes.