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Jazz great Dave Brubeck dies
Yahoo News ^ | 12/05/12 | Yahoo News Staff

Posted on 12/05/2012 9:14:28 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway

Pioneering jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck has died. Russell Gloyd, Brubeck's manager, says he died Wednesday morning of heart failure, after being stricken while on his way to a cardiology appointment with his son. He would have turned 92 on Thursday. The Dave Brubeck Quartet's pieces such as "Take Five" caught listeners' ears with exotic, challenging rhythms and became enduring standards. In 1954 he was the first modern jazz musician to be pictured on the cover of Time magazine. The quartet's 1959 album "Time Out" was the first ever million-selling jazz LP. "Take Five," a cut from that album by saxophonist Paul Desmond, became the group's signature theme.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: brubeck; davebrubeck; jazz; music; obituary
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To: Borges

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41 posted on 12/05/2012 10:26:55 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
Believe it or not, I used to DJ at a college radio station with a mostly-jazz format. Take 5 was one of my favorites.
42 posted on 12/05/2012 10:28:44 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Such a loss. I’ve enjoyed Brubeck’s music my entire life. He was blessed with a full life.


43 posted on 12/05/2012 10:29:28 AM PST by RobertClark (Inside every "older" person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened?)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

This is simply beautiful!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBoWPijGH5M


44 posted on 12/05/2012 10:32:31 AM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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45 posted on 12/05/2012 10:33:17 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
DB was a genius. He had a long and wonderful life.

Thanks for the music....

46 posted on 12/05/2012 10:33:17 AM PST by clintonh8r (Happy to be represented by Lt. Col. Allen West)
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To: Drumbo

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47 posted on 12/05/2012 10:36:37 AM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: Maceman

home listening bkmk


48 posted on 12/05/2012 10:46:07 AM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Brubeck, among his many other greats, recorded one of the greatest tv show themesongs of all time. Here’s the theme from the excellent (if sadly short-lived) show Mr. Broadway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nZxWo1nEEM


49 posted on 12/05/2012 10:52:16 AM PST by DemforBush (100% Ex-Democrat.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Videos at this link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20609327


50 posted on 12/05/2012 11:23:32 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike (Us and Them...)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

His drummer, the late Joe Morello was my drum teacher. RIP Mr. Brubeck.


51 posted on 12/05/2012 12:48:12 PM PST by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
All I ever new about him was a couple of lines in Donald Fagen's "New Frontier":

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

I did see another familiar title of his on Youtube - "Take the A-train" is the first song on the Rollong Stones' Still Life live album - it was playing over the sound system before the band was introduced, and they included it on the track listing for the album.

It seems like the people who made the music I listened to listened to Brubeck. If I was 20 years older I might have been a fan.

52 posted on 12/05/2012 12:52:17 PM PST by Gil4 (Progressives - Trying to repeal the Law of Supply and Demand since 1848)
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To: Gil4
You quoted the very lines from Donald Fagen I was going to.

When I did my jazz show on WVGS one of the few vocals I played was Al Jarreau's version of Blue Rondo A La Turk

53 posted on 12/05/2012 1:28:29 PM PST by real saxophonist (Stay In The Fight)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway; BluesDuke
Thanks for all the good listening. Rest in sweet peace.

In Your Own Sweet Way (Belgium 1964)

54 posted on 12/05/2012 1:45:03 PM PST by Daffynition (Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Farewell, Mr. Brubeck. You have left behind some great stuff to remember you by.


55 posted on 12/05/2012 1:52:01 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Take Five was absolutely terrific. A true work of genius. But the rest of Dave’s work? Notably forgettable. I predict that fifty years from now, nobody will remember it — while T5 will still be considered one of the greatest jazz pieces of all time. R. I. P.


56 posted on 12/05/2012 2:10:56 PM PST by Hawthorn
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

One of the giants. RIP.


57 posted on 12/05/2012 3:48:56 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: trisham

A great cover of the great Dave Brubeck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjtQCOgfV8o&feature=fvst


58 posted on 12/05/2012 7:43:57 PM PST by logitech (Who's here so vile, that will not love his country? If any speak, for him I have offended)
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