[Zuben Elgenubi]

Brubeck's band doing Desmond's Take Five on YouTube, 1996.

[Alaska Wolf]

Take 5, Dave. RIP!

[stop_fascism]

One of the all time greats of American music, and a UOP grad. RIP.

[Stepan12]

Me trying to play Take Five (audio recording) back in 1995. I was sending music to a German penpal then.

[Biggirl]

RIP famous CT resident. “Take Five!”

[jaz.357]

Best album cover EVER!

(when I was 13)

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[Our man in washington]

I’ll take a post to say “thanks for the great music, Mr. Brubeck!”

[Our man in washington]

In fact, I’ll take two posts.

[Our man in washington]

No, three posts.

[Our man in washington]

No, four posts.

[Our man in washington]

What the heck...I’ll take five.

[Revolting cat!]

IBHWA (In Before ‘He Was Amazing’!)

[edpc]

He’s an artist, a pioneer
We’re gonna need some music
On the new frontier

[Betis70]

So sad. Watched this today and am still impressed by the quality of these musicians.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA5UEGKZoGA

[chajin]

It was listening to Brubeck and Jimmy Smith that made me love jazz as a teenager. I only saw Brubeck live once, in 1972 when I was 18, with Gerry Mulligan on baritone sax. He lived as long as he did, in part because in 1944 he was pulled out of Patton's Third Army to play background piano for a Red Cross function in Paris. There he met Darius Milhaud, who had studied with Widor but who also loved American jazz, and for whom Dave named his son Darius. Darius Brubeck went to South Africa as apartheid was ending, and taught music at the University of KwaZulu-Natal for almost 20 years; one of his students was the singer Pamela (de Menezes) Myburgh of the girl-band duo The Arrows. Dave wrote the cantata “The Gates of Justice,” and today he went through those gates. I'm sure his Lord was able to take five and meet him.