http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-dave-brubeck-dies-20121205,0,5143972.story
He was one day shy of his 92nd birthday.
He was one day shy of his 92nd birthday.
R.I.P. - Dave Brubeck - 1920 - 2012
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I have always enjoyed his music.
Even as a 7 year old taking drum lessons, his music was very important. He was an innovator and an icon.
I'm sorry to see him go.
Even as a 7 year old taking drum lessons, his music was very important. He was an innovator and an icon.
I'm sorry to see him go.
Just read the news myself. He's the musician (thanks to my Dad) that got me to appreciate music. Thank you Dave!
Sorry to hear the sad news. In 1987 we were fortunate to spend an afternoon with Dave and his lovely wife Iola in their home in Connecticut. Pearl even got to play on Dave’s Baldwin concert grand. Dave shared with us some of the sections of the Mass that he was writing for the upcoming visit of the Pope to San Francisco. His eldest son Darius, who was a professor of music in South Africa at the time, is named for Darius Milhaud, who was Dave’s professor at Mills College. I don’t think that most people realize how well trained Dave was in classical composition. One of his other son’s, Chris dropped by that day also. Our connection to the Brubeck’s came from one of my brothers who met Chris during Lamaze classes. Recently one of Chris’s compositions was featured on a Reference Recording release. We offered to and did help their youngest son, Matt and his wife, who were in the process of relocating to the SF Bay Area. Matt studied cello at Yale and performs both classical and jazz cello. Dave and Iola were genuinely nice people.
Larry
Larry
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Sorry to hear the bad news. My wife and I heard him at the Paramount Theater in Seattle just last year (or was it the year before?)
Take Five was one of the pieces I murdered during the time I tried to learn to play music......
Take Five was one of the pieces I murdered during the time I tried to learn to play music......
Take Five was the very first Jazz Album i think i ever owned...1988. My folks were in New Orleans, knew i was curious about jazz having listened on the radio and bought Chet Baker and Take Five as a gift for me when they got back. I have since bought the CD and earlier in the year, the K2 XRCD Remaster. Great stuff.
I heard him play at The University of New Mexico in the 60's and I have many of his albums. When I was into vinyl, I had 3 pressing of Time Out and now have 4 CD's in various formats of the same album. While there are those that would suggest he wasn't a true jazz musician, I would only say: "seriously?".
He got me into all kinds of jazz. A great musical contributor.
He got me into all kinds of jazz. A great musical contributor.
At university I fell in love with 'Jazz Goes to College' and got to know every note the Brubeck Quartet played on that LP. Now I am living in Europe and last week was driving near Lisbon listening to 'Jazz Goes to College' on the car stereo, enjoying it as always. On arriving home I switched on BBC to learn that Dave Brubeck was dead at 91. He somehow never left my life, and the quartet with Paul Desmond seems to improve with age, mine. I think that his work in the early fifties was his best, particularly the collaboration with Desmond; they used to finish each other's musical thoughts, for example in Balcony Rock, like chamber music. Later, Dave.
You are absolutely right; Brubeck and Desmond were at their best during the fifties.
'Jazz Goes To Junior College' - 1958.
Thanks for the comment. Another great recording is Jazz at the College of the Pacific, from c. 1953, especially 'The Way You Look Tonight'. I call that the greatest jazz recording ever (I know that's stupid) because of Desmond's and Brubeck's solos and the classical influences they bring to the tune with their counterpoint. The ending is purely classical but emerges naturally from what went before, not forced or pretentious. Brubeck was of course classically trained, and Desmond could play Bach.
-- It is very nice to see "fresh" members here, and from Portugal on top of that! :b
Cheers,
Bob
Cheers,
Bob
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