The Dave Brubeck Quartet
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Brubeck, October 8, 1954
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | David Warren Brubeck |
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December 6, 1920 Concord, California, U.S. |
| Died | December 5, 2012 (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 |
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The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1967. From left to right: Joe Morello, Eugene Wright, Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond.
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| 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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