All material on this EP by Dave Brubeck Octet is excellent-be pation with the listening to these recordings, you find it really interesting at the extreme end!(next quatations by Joop Visser!)July 1950-his second, and last session with The Octet. Elements like counterpoint, tonal colouration, and melodic and rhythmic imagination gave the Dave Brubeck Octet its own undeniable entity.Dave Van Kriegt‘s arrangement of “Love Walked in“ achieves rythmic syntax and harmonic texture, which sounds very close to to the procedures of the Miles Davis Nonets’s work on “The Birth of the Cool“ recordings, Gerry Mulligan’s ideas in particular may have been heeded in this track.Bill Smith scored “What Is This Thing Called Love“, an arrangement that is affected by Smith own doubling on clarinet and baritone saxDave Brubeck’s arrangement of “The Way You Looked Tonight“ is strongly reminiscent of the Miles Davis Nonet Van Kriegt also arranged “September in the Rain“-this is more free-ranging chart which encouraged longer more intricate solos.