Dave Brubeck...Dead at 91

[SamuelKhan]

http://music.yahoo.com/news/manager-jazz-composer-pianist-dave-brubeck-dies-170407395.html

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Jazz 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 died Wednesday morning at Norwalk Hospital of heart failure after being stricken while on his way to a cardiology appointment with his son Darius, said his manager Russell Gloyd. Brubeck would have turned 92 on Thursday.

Brubeck had a career that spanned almost all American jazz since World War II. He formed The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1951 and was the first modern jazz musician to be pictured on the cover of Time magazine — on Nov. 8, 1954 — and he helped define the swinging, smoky rhythms of 1950s and '60s club jazz.

The seminal album "Time Out," released by the quartet in 1959, was the first ever million-selling jazz LP, and is still among the best-selling jazz albums of all time. It opens with "Blue Rondo a la Turk" in 9/8 time — nine beats to the measure instead of the customary two, three or four beats.

A piano-and-saxophone whirlwind based loosely on a Mozart piece, "Blue Rondo" eventually intercuts between Brubeck's piano and a more traditional 4/4 jazz rhythm.

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[Bugman]

I was about to post this sad news. A true legend of Jazz is gone. R.I.P. Dave. 🙁

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[red indian]

My boyhood hero, its Brubeck who got me interested in being a jazz player and opened my eyes to so much music. A legend of 20th Century music.


p.s. To all who work in radio and TV....Dave Brubeck did not write "Take Five". I cant see the point of doing an obituary telling us how great his compositions are, and then playing someone elses!

 

[Brock Samson]

Icons of real music keep dying off, and purveyors of real crap keep making money. Sad millennium.

 

[Whoviantrekkie]

RIP Dave. Go ahead and take five for all time. You earned it after all the good you've done for us here in the music world. 🙁

 

[Bugman]

Icons of real music keep dying off, and purveyors of real crap keep making money. Sad millennium.

Amen brother, amen...

 

[DontAskJusTckle]

p.s. To all who work in radio and TV....Dave Brubeck did not write "Take Five". I cant see the point of doing an obituary telling us how great his compositions are, and then playing someone elses!

That is some pretty heavy duty nitpicking. It was written by Paul Desmond, a member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, and originally performed BY the Dave Brubeck Quartet.

So while Brubeck himself isn't credited with writing the song, he had a lot to do with it's arrangement and it's delivery, so forgive me if I remember him for the great job he and his team did with Take Five.

 

[njjktk]

Dave wouldn't want all of this fighting, you guys.

 

[njjktk]

La Fiesta de la Posada always finds a place in my vinyl rotation. I have a few pieces of his work. Lovely.