RIP Dave Brubeck...

[tkdboyd]

Saw him perform 3 or 4 years ago, was an awe inspiring performance.

Loved his music--RIP

http://www.courant.com/entertainment...,3228538.story

[Mandolin Mick]

Wow ... I had just done a YouTube search for his Take 5 and was thinking about him ...

[sunburst]

91. A pretty good run!
I still listen to "Time Out" on a regular basis.

[fatt-dad]

tonight I'll spin a few. Gone with the Wind, Time Out, Time Further Out. . .

Also the great albums of his sidemen - Gerry Mulligan and Paul Desmond.

It's been several decades since I last saw Brubeck. I really love his music though.

f-d

[Pete Martin]

The musical chemistry between Brubeck and Desmond was as good as it gets!

[eadg145]

I grew up listening to my Dad's Brubeck and Desmond albums in the basement. Many, many hours of that, and his music has become a musical meme between me and my brother. Fantastic stuff.

Many have studied compound time and different time signatures, but his album "Time Out" really put this stuff on the musical map as a required destination. And "Take Five" probably did more to put 5/4 time into musical consciousness across all genres than any other tune.

RIP, Mr. Brubeck. And thank you from the top of my head to the bottom of my tapping toes.

[JEStanek]

I got to see him a few years back, old, but he still had it. He had a great run. RIP, Dave. In addition to the standards, I like his version of the West Side Story music.

Jamie

[Bernie Daniel]

I guess never advanced beyond Dave Brubeck when it comes to jazz...my favorite tune of his was...

[journeybear]

Sad news, indeed. Others can speak more eloquently than I about his music and his contributions to jazz, pop, and the recording industry. I just know a few things. Like that "Time Out" was in its day and may well still be the top-selling jazz album of all time. And "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo A La Turk," among other compositions, expanded the possibilities of odd time signatures and popularized them. For that alone I am forever indebted to him as regards my own composing. He was a giant, and as far as I know didn't make much of his stature, just went on his way making more music, his way.

This comes on the heels of learning that the guy playing at the local piano bar, who just hosted a showcase of my songs, is a longtime friend of the younger Brubecks, and was telling me about his plans to fly them in for a recording project for which they had found time in their busy schedules. I expect this is on hold, as they must be devastated, all of them. My take on that went from "How cool!" to "How awful!" in an instant. I wish I hadn't known.

[Steve-o]

RIP, Mr. Brubeck. And thank you from the top of my head to the bottom of my tapping toes.

Thanks for that homage to Mr. Brubeck. I couldn't have said it better.

[Josh Kaplan]

One of my favorite moments at a Notre Dame Commencement ever.

-Josh

[brunello97]

The Brubeck-Mulligan-Six-Dawson band from "The Last Set at Newport" blew my ears open when I was ten years old. My access points into Grisman and the mandolin owe no small debt to that.

As Fr. Norman O'Connor said on the intro: "Let's hear it for Brubeck."

Indeed.

Mick

[greg_tsam]

Take Five was my first DB song and I played it over and over and over again. Loved it. Here's a good piece on NPR. http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2...t-dave-brubeck

[grassrootphilosopher]

I was in a record store yesterday, saw a Brubeck CD and contemplated about buying it. Funny coincidences... RIP Dave Brubeck.

Apart from Bill Monroe, Dave Brubeck turned me on to rythm. His record "Take Five" is a milestone. All the tunes on that recording are rythmically wonderfull. A great learning experience.

It looks like Dave Brubeck lived a full live.

[Amy Burcham]

Thanks!!!! This was great.

[Ted Eschliman]

Had the privilege of seeing Brubeck in a Minneapolis concert in the mid 70's when I was in my teens. He was actually playing with his sons, virtuosos in their own right. What an amazing performance and a turning point for me in my appreciation for jazz.

[journeybear]

And he would have turned 92 today.

[fatt-dad]

Just for the record. Dave Brubeck did not write, "Take Five." That was a composition by his sax player Paul Desmond, which was made famous by the Dave Brubeck quartet. It's an annoying detail to mention, but most attribute the work to Brubeck who did compose and arrange wonderful music. I don't want to deny Brubeck's legacy as either, but let's also preserve Desmond's (RIP also).

f-d

[brunello97]

Just for the record. Dave Brubeck did not write, "Take Five." That was a composition by his sax player Paul Desmond, which was made famous by the Dave Brubeck quartet. It's an annoying detail to mention, but most attribute the work to Brubeck who did compose and arrange wonderful music. I don't want to deny Brubeck's legacy as either, but let's also preserve Desmond's (RIP also).

f-d

My favorite Desmond story (which may be apocryphal) has him being asked if he was trying to make the alto sax sound like a dry martini. Desmond supposedly replied "No, I'm trying to make the sax sound like TWO dry martinis."

Mick

[mandroid]

Tried to wing a version of 'Three to Get Ready' at the thursday night Pub Jam..

.. hope Dave B is still Resting and not turning over as a result.

[journeybear]

Nice in memoriam piece on CBS Sunday Morning today (They usually do, with one glaring exception in recent history (qv)). "Time Out" was the first million-selling jazz album - that's the factoid I couldn't remember. His piece was nicely paired with one for Oscar Niemeyer, the Brazilian architect who designed much of Brasilia and also the UN HQ, also passed this week. He eschewed straight lines in favor of curves, much as Brubeck & Co. favored odd time signatures over standard ones. Both produced futuristic visionary works, over fifty years ago, that seemed to promise a glorious world which has yet to truly materialize. Fascinating to look back from today's vantage point.

[brunello97]

Nice in memoriam piece on CBS Sunday Morning today (They usually do, with one glaring exception in recent history (qv)). "Time Out" was the first million-selling jazz album - that's the factoid I couldn't remember. His piece was nicely paired with one for Oscar Niemeyer, the Brazilian architect who designed much of Brasilia and also the UN HQ, also passed this week. He eschewed straight lines in favor of curves, much as Brubeck & Co. favored odd time signatures over standard ones. Both produced futuristic visionary works, over fifty years ago, that seemed to promise a glorious world which has yet to truly materialize. Fascinating to look back from today's vantage point.

They had the right dynamic for The New Frontier.

Mick

[Ted Eschliman]

Donald Fagen lyric not lost on me, Mick. Thanks for the reminder!

[Bruce Clausen]

I saw the quartet with Mulligan around 1970. What I appreciated especially was the chamber music approach brought into jazz in the fifties by band leaders like Brubeck, Tristano, and John Lewis. More complex compositions, with longer forms, tempo changes, dynamics, etc. One of my favourite Brubeck tunes was The Duke (Ellington, that is).

For a little mando content, I've uploaded to my Soundclick page a demo version of Blue Rondo recorded a few years back by the Vancouver band Gypsalero. The great Ron Thompson on guitar, yours truly on mandolin:

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/defa...&content=music

[Shanachie]

I learned Take Five last year on the mandolin. Mandozine has a couple of TablEdit files for it. You need TablEdit to view them. Here is a link if anyone is interested: http://www.mandozine.com/music/searc...rder=A&submit=