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 ...
Jazz at Lincoln Center is presenting four concerts this weekend that will reimagine Louis Armstrong’s and Dave Brubeck’s 1962 album, The Real Ambassadors. Iola Brubeck and Dave Brubeck during Dave ...
While the late composer Dave Brubeck was probably best known for his contributions to jazz, he also studied and wrote extensively in the classical idiom as well. The 1997 cover of the Dave Brubeck ...
Brubeck combined classical influences and his own innovations on the seminal 1959 album “Time Out” by his classic quartet that included alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, drummer Joe Morello and bassist ...
The result was the album Time Out, recorded in 1959. With the hits Take Five (composed by Desmond in 5/4 meter) and Blue Rondo a la Turk (composed by Brubeck in 9/8), the album propelled Brubeck onto ...
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 ...