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R.I.P Dave Brubeck
Topic Started: Dec 5 2012, 10:29 PM (316 Views)
rumbaba
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http://londonjazz.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/rip-dave-brubeck-1920-2012.html?showComment=1354743085537

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<ok> ..... superbly suave urbane music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA5UEGKZoGA
Edited by caissier, Dec 6 2012, 12:23 AM.
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Not a jazz fan per se but his music I would listen to...

RIP Mr Brubeck <rose>
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becky sharp
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I watched an Arena profile ..In His Own Sweet Way... a while back, about him, that co-incided with his 90th birthday.....there are clips from it here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00cgg6f

I am not the biggest fan of jazz but I love some of his music...I always assumed he'd composed Take Five until I watched that programme.

Sad he didn't make it for his 92nd birthday ...he died just one day short of it ... a birthday party had been planned for him with family and famous guests. It has been recast as a memorial tribute.. Sad .

Herbie Hancock was very warm in his praise for him last night on Radio 5 Live

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Yes Becks, Paul Desmond composed 'Take Five'. When I was very young I actually thought DB was a sax player because the only thing I had heard by him was 'Take Five'.

Jazz has gone through various phases and DB helped open up a new audience for jazz, he made it cool for white college kids in the 50s and 60s.
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Dave Brubeck is known to the majority of the population for Take Five, but he was a prolific performer and composer, recording dozens of albums from the 1950s onward.

For me, his best years were with The Quartet of the 50s and 60s - Dave Brubeck, piano, Paul Desmond, alto sax, Lloyd Davis (later Joe Morello), drums & Ron Crotty, bass. The wonderfully lyrical and swinging playing of Desmond, and the experimental time signatures employed by Brubeck lifted the group from the ordinary. However,some of Brubeck's solos were criticised as having"the old hammer-and-anvil attack "

Here is Brubeck swinging to "How High The Moon" from Jazz at Oberlin, 1953

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZS2OT4ZrTo
Edited by dai Cottomy, Dec 6 2012, 12:26 PM.
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Was any of his music used in Mad Men? It's highly rated but I found it quite arid and feel it would have been improved by colourful elements from the period such as Dave Brubeck's music. (Maybe it was .... <erm> !!)
Edited by caissier, Dec 6 2012, 04:52 PM.
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Norm Deplume
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Sadly missed!
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becky sharp
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Jamie Cullum is doing a special for Dave Brubeck next Tuesday 7 p.m. on R2
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rumbaba
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Yes, I heard that Becks, thanks for the reminder <ok>

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"I hear you're mad about Brubeck
I like your eyes, I like him too
He's an artist, a pioneer
We've got to have some music on the new frontier"

Donald Fagen, "The New Frontier"
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