Dave Brubeck has passed away recently. This has been on my mind all week. I grew up on his music. Countless hours laying on the floor as a kid listening to his records and reading the liner notes. I must have had every album and then some by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. I used to buy them from the Salvation Army even if I already had the album. I really can't explain how much his music meant to me - as a kid - and and all these years later as an adult. Rest in peace Dave - what you did meant a lot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Brubeck He was probably most widely known for Take Five and his use of experimental time signatures and dissonant chords: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9aG3wUrfrE&playnext=1&list=AL94UKMTqg-9Coc9tACRPoHVGiTSfbvUM9"]Dave Brubeck - Take Five - JazzAndBluesExperience - YouTube[/ame] *I selected this particular YouTube vid of this song for it's sound quality.
RIP. His music also gave the otherwise utterly unemployable and possibly criminally insane something to do. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yExwkQYcp0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yExwkQYcp0[/ame] Mitch
My mother introduced me to Brubeck as she was in that whole jazz age. He really started me into an exploration of jazz that I still today. He was a great artist.
Yes... sadly another legend has passed. I heard this today and bummed out on this. Hard end to the year for those who love music.
Ya, I heard about Brubeck on the radio a few days ago. He was honestly one of the reasons why I became a jazz fan -- him, Duke Ellington, Harry Connick Jr, and a couple others. Yep, a real giant in the field. The passage of time can be really annoying sometimes.
And he was a real curve ball in the world of jazz because he came from an entirely different background than most jazz musicians. The odds he'd have become a cowboy were much higher than become one of the seminal figures in jazz.
