After my post on Alan Broadbent's new album, Broadbent Plays Brubeck, I spent a chunk of time yesterday listening to the Dave Brubeck Quartet. I also slid onto YouTube for a bit. Here's what came up ...
December 14th 2021 marked the 58th anniversary of the concert by the Dave Brubeck Quartet held at College of the Pacific and immortalized on the album Jazz at College of the Pacific (Fantasy, 1954).
Legendary pianist and composer Dave Brubeck (1920-2012) was famous for his iconic recordings of jazz classics like “Take 5,” “In Your Own Sweet Way” and “Blue Rondo a la Turk.” But Brubeck had another ...
The first story about the Dave Brubeck quartet in The Forum files is dated Oct., 23, 1956. The review by Francis Schoff begins: "The Standing Room Only sign was out at NDAC's Festival Hall Monday ...
HARTFORDJazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such as "Take Five" caught listeners' ears with exotic, challenging rhythms, has died. He was 91. Brubeck, who lived in ...
And I'm Michel Martin. On this day, 65 years ago, pianist Dave Brubeck and his quartet went into a recording studio in New York City and produced what would become the bestselling jazz single of all ...
The name Dave Brubeck might not strike a chord with everyone, but trust us—you've heard "Take Five." The pianist behind that song and so many other classic jazz compositions has died at the age of 91.
As the Monterey Jazz Festival kicks off again this weekend, The California Report Magazine goes back in time to a chilly evening at the festival 60 years ago. On Sept. 23, 1962, a groundbreaking ...
A uniquely designed Oakland home originally built for late jazz legend Dave Brubeck is for sale for $3 million. An Oakland home built for late jazz legend Dave Brubeck is for sale for $3 million.
Dave Brubeck, a pianist and composer whose distinctive mixture of experimentation and accessibility made him one of the most popular jazz musicians of the 1950s and 60s, died Wednesday morning in ...
“The Gates of Justice,” a large-scale 1969 choral work about relations between Black and Jewish Americans, is being performed in Los Angeles. By Zachary Woolfe Brian Thomas and Brooke Husic are back ...