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The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Dave Brubeck
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Brubeck, October 8, 1954
Background information
Birth name David Warren Brubeck
Born (1920-12-06)December 6, 1920
Concord, California, U.S.
Died December 5, 2012(2012-12-05) (aged 91)
Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S.
Genres Jazz, cool jazz, West Coast jazz, third stream
Occupation(s) Musician, composer, bandleader
Instruments Piano
Years active 1940s–2012
Labels Columbia, Legacy, Sony, Concord, A&M, Atlantic
Associated acts Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright, Joe Morello, Gerry Mulligan
Website davebrubeck.com
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
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The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1967. From left to right: Joe Morello, Eugene Wright, Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond.
Background information
Origin San Francisco, California, United States
Genres Jazz
Years active 1951–2012
Website davebrubeck.com
Past members Dave Brubeck
Paul Desmond
Bob Bates
Joe Dodge
Ron Crotty
Lloyd Davis
Joe Morello
Norman Bates
Eugene Wright
Gerry Mulligan
Jack Six
Alan Dawson
Darius Brubeck
Chris Brubeck
Dan Brubeck
Bobby Militello
Alec Dankworth
Michael Moore
Randy Jones

David Warren "Dave" Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz. He wrote a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranged 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.

His long-time musical partner, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, wrote the saxophone melody for the Dave Brubeck Quartet's best remembered piece, "Take Five", which is in 5/4 time and has endured as a jazz classic on one of the top-selling jazz albums, Time Out. Brubeck experimented with time signatures throughout his career, recording "Pick Up Sticks" in 6/4, "Unsquare Dance" in 7/4, "World's Fair" in 13/4, and "Blue Rondo à la Turk" in 9/8. He was also a respected composer of orchestral and sacred music, and wrote soundtracks for television such as Mr. Broadway and the animated miniseries This Is America, Charlie Brown.

Dave Brubeck was born in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Concord, California, and grew up in Ione. His father, Peter Howard "Pete" Brubeck, was a cattle rancher, and his mother, Elizabeth (née Ivey), who had studied piano in England under Myra Hess and intended to become a concert pianist, taught piano for extra money. His father had Swiss ancestry (the family surname was originally "Brodbeck") and possibly Native American Modoc lineage, while his maternal grandparents were English and German. Brubeck originally did not intend to become a musician (his two older brothers, Henry and Howard, were already on that track), but took lessons from his mother. He could not read music during these early lessons, attributing this difficulty to poor eyesight, but "faked" his way through, well enough that this deficiency went mostly unnoticed.


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