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Music and Media => The Jazz Circle => Topic started by: aragon63 on 5 Dec 2012, 05:08 pm
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-dave-brubeck-dead-20121205,0,7126256.column (http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-dave-brubeck-dead-20121205,0,7126256.column)
Take Five / 1966 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faJE92phKzI)
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Sad truth about getting older.
I accompanied my Mom to the Tulsa Little Theater once a week for rehearsals in 1966. Arriving home one night after rehearsal, we walked into the living room to the most beautiful sight I've ever seen. My Dad was sitting on the floor listening to this tune through the Jensen speakers and Dynaco amp he had built. His eyes were closed, a glass of bourbon in his hand, a look of serenity on his face.
While attending TJC in 1982, I bought tickets to a Brubeck show, and my Dad drove over from Little Rock to attend it with me. I had just turned 21, and we shared our first beer together.
My Dad died about 3 years ago, but I still had these memories and as long as Brubeck was alive, the connection to my Dad still had life in it. The sad thing about getting older and losing those close to you is, the connections you had to them start to disappear, one by one, until the loss starts to lose focus, and your connection loses grip.
RIP, Dave. Thanks for the memories.
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RIP +1 old friend.
As I may have said in a different Brubeck post from a while ago, I'd seen him play at the Kimmel Center a number of years ago. Pehaps the single greatest jazz concert of the many that I've seen over the years. Sublime.
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Just listened last night to Take Five and Blue Rondo à la Turk from the Time Out Disc in DSD. I still remember my brother coming home with the Time Out Album in the 60's. When he popped that record on our Zenith record player(yes, grasshoppers...Zenith) and I heard Take Five, I thought it was the coolest piece of music I had ever heard.
R.I.P. Dave. You are loved and you will be missed.
Regards,
Randy
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RIP
Saw him a few years ago at the Monterey Jazz Festival. He walked slowly to the piano, but transcended once there. The power of music to heal.
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His character also matched his musicianship. We need more people like him.
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He has left a mark on this planet ... an example worth emulating ...
Peace!
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Rest in peace, Dave.
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The world is a better place because of his music...RIP Mr. Brubeck
Jim
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May he rest in peace. And I'm sure he is.
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I discovered him, his quartet, and his music this last two years; boy, what a good quality group they were! Sad to see him depart this earth. :(
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He was a fine musician and a true innovator. Also a good man and quite humble (see my post in the Big Band Jazz string about his reaction to getting on Time Magazine before Duke Ellington). His birthday was coming up tomorrow and a big party was planned. Sorry he didn't make the next round.
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R.I.P. Dave. What a good life, at times playing music with your sons, long married life, etc.
With all the DSD rips of his albums that I own, I still constantly go to the incredible live DBQ "At Carnegie Hall" redbook. What a great story (and concert). The band wasn't sure if they would be accepted into that portion of the music industry (West Coasters after all), and felt they didn't deserve the Carnegie Hall treatment, let alone wondered what the typical Carnegie hall patrons would think of their music. Plus there was a newspaper strike and the band wooried the audience would be sparce. not! Then they started playing and the seemingly non-jazz audience already knew their music , and loved it!!!! They were so taken aback, and they claim that is the moment they knew they had actually arrived (funny cuz the band was quite accomplished by then). Dave, in one interview, claims set 2 of that concert is the best they'd ever played.
We will miss you Dave, but thanks to the music industry we have your music to fall back on forever.
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He was a true innovator. He brought many hours of pleasure to us.
Thank you, Dave---
don
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Another article. (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/arts/music/dave-brubeck-jazz-musician-dies-at-91.html?partner=rss&emc=rss)
Joe
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RIP Dave, listening to Time Out as I write
Mark
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Dave Brubeck was the first Jazz concert I ever saw, in around '75 at the Kennedy Center in WDC, with the Two Generations band and the lucky plus of Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan. RIP to a great performer who was still doing it until almost the very end. Carnegie Hall Concert or Time Out tonight for sure...
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Played Take Five as my solo in high school on the tenor sax. I thought Paul Desmond was amazing and their interplay nothing short of stunning. Thankfully his records will keep me company forever.
RIP,
Anand.
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He and his sons played in the Fine Arts Center at Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman State) when I was a freshman there in 1981. I never really listened to, nor appreciated, jazz up to that time. I can say that seeing him live truly was a life changing experience, and I will never forget him or his music. Godspeed Mr. Brubeck, you were a very special human being. :bowdown:
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What a long and wonderful career he had! How many artists have spanned so many decades and generations yet remained relevant to all? I greatly regret not having been able to see him play live, now I'll have to content myself with just the record. R.I.P. Mr. Brubeck!
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I got to see him later in life when the Cleveland Orchestra, during one of their annual Cleveland Institute of Music benefits, had the Quartet into Severance Hall. This was probably 10 years ago at the most. I got to shake his hand at the dinner afterward as he walked by to sit at the main table. The group was amazing, and he had a couple of the wunderkinds from CIM come forward into the band to play during Rondo! It was so cool.
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Sadly there will likely be a short term run on his music now that he has passed. I know I don't have as much of his material that I would like.
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I had the opportunity to play on stage with Dave Brubeck when I was playing in The Oklahoma Symphony back in the 80's. The OSO had a "Pops" series and brought in some really big names which the orchestra would provide backup for.
Dave Brubeck is what I would call a "Musician's Musician". He was a very humble man while being an incredible talent.
Randy
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Sorry to know it, this is a huge loss to Jazz and to the good music.
RIP Dave.
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He did more to introduce white middle class America to Jazz than nearly anyone.
Doc
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Hey!
A huge loss indeed for music world. But he definitely left a huge mark on the world for sure.
Couple of years ago a had a chance to see him play at the Carnegie Hall. Although he and the band didn't play "Take Five" that night it was still a great show, to see him play with all the energy that wouldn't expect to see at his age.
I still remembered that night :D
Take care,
Buddy :thumb:
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Dave Brubeck came to Huntsville on two different occasions to play with the Symphony and the Community Chorus.
The first concert had:
Conductor: Russell Gloyd
Piano: Dave Brubeck
Winds: Bob Militelo
Bass: Chris Brubeck
Drums: Randy Jones
What a magical musical evening.
The 2nd Concert, several years later, had the following line-up:
Conductor: Russell Gloyd
Piano: Dave Brubeck
Clarinet: Bill Smith
Bass: Jack Six
Drums: Randy Jones
I remember this concert more clearly. Rehearsal was on Friday evening and Saturday morning with the Concert on Saturday evening. We played Mr. Brubeck's "To Hope" Composition.
Talking to Mr. Gloyd, backstage after the Friday night rehearsal, on Wednesday, they had been playing in South America. During this time, the group was still doing around 300 performances per year. Many were done during the good weather months in Europe.
During Rehearsal, we'd get a set of railroad tracks (grand pause) and Brubeck and company would go off a jam. During rehearsal, this was only a couple of minutes. During the concert, these pauses were long, on the order of 8-10 minutes. Brubeck, Mr Smith, would pass the melody back and forth and then, Mr Gloyd would step back up on the podium and the orchestra would come back in.
The evening performance during these pauses was nothing like the rehearsal. It was just amazing watching this group of fantastic musicians communicate via their music.
HsvHeelFan
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Couple of years ago a had a chance to see him play at the Carnegie Hall. Although he and the band didn't play "Take Five" that night it was still a great show, to see him play with all the energy that wouldn't expect to see at his age.
At Kimmel they saved "Take Five" for the encore. After a performance that would make young musicians look like weaklings he and the group started in and lit the stage with it. The crowd was enthusiastic the whole night, but when that started the entire audience went hoopie.
My God I'm getting choked up now just remembering it.
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Brubeck was 92, I think anyone would be happy with 92 years that was full of life. I have 14 Brubeck albums to remember him by, RIP Dave. :thumb:
Cheers,
Robin
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RIP Mr. Brubeck
Thanks for the music you left for us....
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I saw Dave in the late 60’s at the Cullen Auditorium at the University of Houston with my dad. The auditorium was almost empty. That was one of my best memories with my Dad.
Bob
PS I love his old vinyl recordings.
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Dave Brubeck is what I would call a "Musician's Musician".
Agree...and his music will live forever !
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart moment of zen tonight was a snip of Kennedy Center Honor's induction of Dave Brubeck. A class RIP ending, 1920-2012. 8)
Cheers,
Robin
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Hi all Audio Circle members.
I bought a CD of him and love it.
I like the fact that his music is different.
R.I.P Dave and your memory will life on for centuries...
Guy 13
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Just an FYI, Eugene Wright is the last surviving member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet that was disbanded in '67.
Joe Morello passed away last year and Paul Desmond passed away in '77.
HsvHeelFan
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I was wondering if anyone was still alive. I knew about Desmond and Morello but wasn't sure about Eugene Wright. Saw the quartet for the first time in 1959 or 1960 performing at Georgetown University during one of the Gala weekend parties. This was the first jazz group I had ever seen in person. Because of them, I have been a jazz nut ever since. It was because of venues like this Dave and the group brought jazz to the American middle class. And all of us jazz lovers should be forever thankful to Dave Brubeck.
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What a composer, musician, and a humble gentleman. My friends know I liked playing his music and
I will be playing some today.
He has performed Take Five with some different flavors as already mentioned. For those interested, here is the original Take Five.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs
RIP Dave.
Steve
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My fav
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc34Uj8wlmE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc34Uj8wlmE)
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I'll always give Dave Brubeck equal billing with Miles for drawing me into Jazz when I was in high school back in the '60's. So many albums and performances to talk about but...'Tis the Season" so I'll mention his solo Christmas album. Testament to his creative brilliance he took the silliest of holiday songs (Jingle Bells) and turned it into a 4 minute work of art. Unlike other Christmas albums, I never tire of this one during the season.
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My favorite Brubeck CD is "Newport '58". My dad had this album when I was a kid. It was released on CD in Japan and I was able to get a copy of it via Amazon. It was Duke Ellington night so the Quartet played a bunch of Ellington tunes. It was recorded live. On their performance the "The Duke", the damper pedal on Dave's piano squeaks every time he uses it.
The other album that I listen to a lot is "The Great Concerts".
Brubeck did a lot of great recordings after the '67 quartet disbanded. I think I have almost all of those recordings.
HsvHeelFan
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My fave Brubeck CD is Time Further Out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-qR3a41u4s&playnext=1&list=PLD2DE18D678586034&feature=results_main
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I'd heard of a fairly recent account from one of his performances where his son had to help him to cross the stage and seat him at the piano. He instantly dispelled any crowd anxiety by playing like his old self.
A tribute to the value of music therapy.
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An innovator and true gentleman.
When he was a kid, he wanted to be a cowboy. This wasn't a child's fantasy, his father was a rancher.
He was almost kicked out of music school because he couldn't read music. Several of his teachers came to his support by stating that his counterpoint and harmony were the best they ever encountered.
His record company didn't want to release Time Out because of the use of unusual time signatures. They were still stuck in the mindset of the Big Band era, when Jazz was in 4/4 so it would be danceable.
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many years back I saw Dave play at Clewes Hall (some of the best acousitcs in North America), and left stunned. This guy was ontop of his game then, and was simply smoking hot. I can only put four or five key board players in that class (well six). Bassie (for his performances, Gonzalo Rubacalba (talants beyond belief), Montey Alexander (just plain and simply good at his craft), Oscar Peterson (exceptional in an unmiced acoustic venue), Chic Corea (can do it all), and lastly Red Garland. Might toss in Monk as well, but after that the list gets thin. As I said Dave resided in some fantastic company! I might be able to add another three men and maybe one woman, but doubt anybody here has heard of most of them.
gary