Jazz musician Dave Brubeck managed to merge creative use of poly-rhythms and poly-tonality into forms that also achieved popular success. His early work in the San Francisco Bay area with the Dave Brubeck Octet and the Dave Brubeck Trio set the stage for his fame with the Dave Brubeck Quartet. This album's reinterpretations of standards like "Heart and Soul," "Avalon," and "Sweet Georgia Brown" comes pressed on cool red plastic and with a hip jacket illlustration of the trio as a stylized cartoon.