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Dave Brubeck
Biography
David Warren "Dave" Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz. He wrote a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranged from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills. His music is known for employing unusual time signatures, and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, and tonalities. His long-time musical partner, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, wrote the saxophone melody for the Dave Brubeck Quartet's best remembered piece, "Take Five", which is in 5/4 time and has endured as a jazz classic on one of the top-selling jazz albums, Time Out. Brubeck experimented with time signatures throughout his career, recording "Pick Up Sticks" in 6/4, "Unsquare Dance" in 7/4, "World's Fair" in 13/4, and "Blue Rondo à la Turk" in 9/8. He was also a respected composer of orchestral and sacred music, and wrote soundtracks for television such as Mr. Broadway and the animated miniseries This Is America, Charlie Brown.
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Discography
- The Essential Dave Brubeck, 2003
- 2005-11-28: Grosser Saal des Wiener Konzerthauses, Vienna, Austria
- In Their Own Sweet Way, 1997
- Brubeck à la mode, 1960
- Private Brubeck Remembers, 2004
- Chromatic Fantasy Sonata / Rising Sun / The Salmon Strikes (feat. piano: John Salmon), 2002
- 1954-1966, 2003
- The Dave Brubeck Collection
- This Is Jazz 3, 1996
- Koto Song
- Greatest Hits, 1997
- 1975: The Duets, 1976
- Brother, the Great Spirit Made Us All, 1974
- 80th Birthday Celebration, 2000
- Take Five, 2009
- Dave Brubeck's Greatest Hits, 1966
- Les indispensables de Dave Brubeck, 1996
- Trio Brubeck, 1993
- On Time, 2001
- Collection, 1975
- Truth Is Fallen, 1972
- Once When I Was Very Young, 1991
- Midnite Jazz & Blues: Flamingo, 2000
- Les incontournables
- Dejavu Retro Gold Collection
- Brubeck Plays Brubeck, 1998
- Take Five at Basin Street East, 1961
- 50 Years of Dave Brubeck Live at The Monterey Jazz Festival 1958-2007, 2008
- Out of Nowhere
- Summit Sessions, 1971
- Just You, Just Me, 1994
- Time Signatures: A Career Retrospective, 1992
- Dave Brubeck Plays for Lovers, 2006
- Love Songs, 2000
- His Greatest Hits
- A Dave Brubeck Christmas, 1996
- Plays and Plays and Plays, 1992
- The 40th Anniversary Tour of the U.K., 1999
- The Real Ambassadors, 1994
- The Very Best, 2000
- The Essence of Dave Brubeck, 1991
- Trio & Quartet
- Late Night Brubeck: Live From the Blue Note, 1994
- Live With the LSO, 2002
- Indian Summer, 2007
- Nightshift: Live at the Blue Note, 1995
- We're All Together Again for the First Time, 1973
- Legacy of a Legend, 2010
- Vocal Encounters, 2001
- The Gates of Justice, 2004
- Time In, 2004
- Jazz Collection, 1995
- Quiet as the Moon, 1991
- All the Things We Are, 1976
- Moscow Night, 1988
- Take Five (Quadromania), 2005
- The Quartet
- To Hope! A Celebration, 1996
- Take ... The Greatest Hits, 1991
- Mitos do jazz, Volume 9: Dave Brubeck, 2012
- Gold
- Essentiel Jazz: Dave Brubeck, 1994
- Live at Montreux 1982, 1995
- Take Five: His Greatest Hits, 1995
- Time Was, 2005
- Adventures in Time
- Best of Dave Brubeck (disc 1)
- Two Generations of Brubeck, 1973
- Jazz Moods: Cool, 2004
- Time Out, 2010
- John Salmon Plays Dave Brubeck, 2004
- Interchanges '54, 1991
- Early Concepts
- Live: Tritonis, 2008
- Dave Brubeck in Moscow, 1999
- Young Lions & Old Tigers, 1995
- Ken Burns Jazz: Dave Brubeck, 2000
- I'm in a Dancing Mood, 2000
- Back Home, 1994
- Take Five, Volume 1, 1990
- The Jazz Biography
- My Romance, 2006
- Dave Brubeck / Paul Desmond, 1990
- Ballads, 2002
- Dave Brubeck Plays Standards
- Classical Brubeck, 2003
- One Alone: Solo Piano, 2000
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Comments
Dave Brubeck's impact on jazz as a quirky yet sublime composer as well as a unique instrumentalist and band leader, remains undeniable and indelible. The cooler sound which he helped pioneer has had its detractors at times. However that same sound frequently brought new, younger listeners to jazz. And what about those time signatures people! (Paul Desmond's "Take Five" was possibly the first jazz tune I began hummimg as kid in short school trousers. Joe Morello's drumming is still influential and legendary.) Even some classical music lovers I know dig Brubeck. (Their ears always prick up when you remind them he studied with Darius Milhaud and was interested in the work of Arnold Schoenberg among other classical composers. Classical people are strange in some ways!)
Play on Dave.
Dave Brubeck is a part of my life and I heartily agree with Christopherr Lynce when he comments on Paul Desmonfd and Joe Morello. I lved in rural Australia as a boy and tennager and hearing Dave Brubeck was a window into the world to me - sophisticated, distant and very very cool.I bought all his LP's much to the mystery of many of my friends.
Play on Dave
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