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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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Summer jazz 2013: Festivals in San Francisco, San Jose and Healdsburg will keep the music humming

Source: The San Jose Mercury News

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 ...
Full article at: The San Jose Mercury News  More like this  12 hours ago, 3:57pm CDT

“I’m Always Learning”: A Conversation with David Sanborn

Source: Popdose.com

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 ...
Full article at: Popdose.com  More like this  15 hours ago, 12:15pm CDT

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Preview: Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog/Constellation

Source: Newcity: Street Smart Chicago

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 ...
Full article at: Newcity: Street Smart Chicago  More like this  21 hours ago, 6:59am CDT

EDUCATION: A New Look and Vibe for This Yeara(TM)S Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet

Source: All About Jazz

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 ...
Full article at: All About Jazz  More like this  1 day ago, 1:01pm CDT

Bennett & Brubeck - The White House Sessions - Live 1962 Available For First Time Ever On Tuesday, May 28

Source: PR Newswire

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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Album reviews: Daft Punk, Darius Rucker, Beach Boys, more

Source: New Haven Register

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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Source: Musings from the Chiefio

Doesn’t matter what the stuff is. If it is above the goat, the goat will climb it. Never leave your car parked in a goat pasture if you value the paint. Or your pig. Though maybe for the pig it is like Japanese Shiatsu mas ...
Full article at: Musings from the Chiefio  More like this  5 days ago, 2:24am CDT

Jazz trombone veteran to team up with Lincoln band, quartet

Source: Recordnet.com

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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