David Warren Brubeck (born December 6, 1920 in Concord, California), better known as Dave Brubeck, is an American jazz pianist. Regarded as a jazz icon, he has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranges from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills. His music is known for employing unusual time signatures, and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, and tonalities.
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Healdsburg Jazz Festival: This annual event (May 31-June 9) is a jewel. Headliners include saxophonist Charles Lloyd and pianist Jason Moran, the old and the young, forming kind of a perfect duo; pianist Fre ...
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It’s become something of a pejorative term, but smooth jazz was huge in the ’80s. Sax player David Sanborn and keyboardist Bob James were two of the genre’s biggest names — so when they teamed up as a duo for 1986′s Double Visi ...
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If you’re ever tired of hearing standards, coax guitarist Marc Ribot into playing them. Reconciling the Dave Brubeck original and what’s called “Take 5” on Ribot’s latest work with his trio, Ceramic Dog, is almost too difficult to do. A phrase kicks up e ...
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The Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet for 2013-14 is taking on a whole new look and a whole new vibe. For the first time since the group comprising some of the nation’s top young jazz musicians was formed, there is a female member, and no piani ...
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NEW YORK, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On Tuesday, May 28, RPM/Columbia/Legacy Recordings will release , two musical titans, at the peak of their creative powers and popularity, performing an impromptu set at the White House Seminar ...
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POP Daft Punk “Random Access Memories” Daft Life/Columbia ***1⁄2 The fourth album by the French duo Daft Punk may well go down as one of the best albums ever by an electronic dance music ac ...
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Bill Watrous will perform with the Lincoln High School Band.Wikimedia Commons Bill Watrous, a veteran jazz trombone player, will tutor and perform with members of Lincoln High School's Jazz Band on Tuesday. "We'll try to create the illusio ...
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