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RIP Dave Brubeck

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Belated, embarassingly.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/a...ician-dies-at-91.html?src=me&ref=general&_r=0

December 5, 2012

His Music Gave Jazz New Pop

By BEN RATLIFF

Dave Brubeck, the pianist and composer who helped make jazz popular again in the 1950s and '60s with recordings like "Time Out," the first jazz album to sell a million copies, and "Take Five," the still instantly recognizable hit single that was that album?s centerpiece, died on Wednesday in Norwalk, Conn. He would have turned 92 on Thursday.
He died while on his way to a cardiology appointment, Russell Gloyd, his producer, conductor and manager for 36 years, said. Mr. Brubeck lived in Wilton, Conn.

In a long and successful career, Mr. Brubeck brought a distinctive mixture of experimentation and accessibility that won over listeners who had been trained to the sonic dimensions of the three-minute pop single.
Mr. Brubeck experimented with time signatures and polytonality and explored musical theater and the oratorio, baroque compositional devices and foreign modes. He did not always please the critics, who often described his music as schematic, bombastic and - a word he particularly disliked - stolid. But his very stubbornness and strangeness - the blockiness of his playing, the oppositional push-and-pull between his piano and Paul Desmond's alto saxophone - make the Brubeck quartet's best work still sound original...
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faJE92phKzI"]Dave Brubeck - Take Five - 1966 - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc34Uj8wlmE"]Blue Rondo A La Turk - Dave Brubeck - YouTube[/ame]
 
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Still listen to his tunes. Prefer the earlier stuff to his later ones, but that's taste. Joe Morello - drums, Eugene Wright - bass, Paul Demond - alto sax, and of course Dave on piano. Syncopation to the max, still not matched today. Gerry Mulligan sat in on bari (baritone sax), and Stan Getz also sat in on tenor sax. Probably other guest players that I've missed.

He set the standard, and really never matched, although Paul Winter group, MJQ, and others gave it a shot. David Sanborn to me came closest.

Thanks for the memories,

:gobucks3::gobucks4::banger:
 
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Was really sad to hear this news since jazz has always been a big part of my musical life. I love listening to Brubeck, Kenton (Time for a Change in 9/4...I still cringe thinking about the practices :lol: ), Miller, Goodman...all the classic stuff.
 
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