Some albums deserve to be in every music listener's collection, no matter their age, their typical listening preference, their shoe size, or whether they preferred the Munsters or the Adams Family (I fall in the latter category). Time Out easily fits the bill. It's a jazz masterpiece that even jazz illiterates can joyfully appreciate, and as a result, one of the best selling jazz albums of all ...
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Dakota Austin is a 12-year-old sax player, who happened to say the right thing at the right time. While at the Litchfield Jazz Festival's camp last week, he met 87-year-old Dave Brubeck, and told Dave that he was his inspiration, and also "I want to play 'Take Five' with you." Brubeck asked him if [...]~~
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Recently, Jazz legend Dave Brubeck was asked ahead of his performance at the 50th Monterey Jazz Festival on Sunday night how he spends his time, the 86-year-old Brubeck said: "Working, no matter where or what.""I'm always busy," he said, wearing a white jacket and large oval glasses. "Relaxing isn't a word used often in our family."For nearly 50 years, the name Dave Brubeck has been synonymous ...
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1. Fats Domino, “I’m Gonna Be a Wheel Some Day.” It’s impossible to listen to Fats without smiling.2. Dave Brubeck, “Kathy’s Waltz.” I wonder how many American households in the late 50s and early 60s counted Time Out as the only jazz LP in their collection.3. The Fiestas, “So Fine.” Written by Johnny Otis.4. John Coltrane, “Naima.” How many of those households that owned Tim
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...Today's Dave Brubeck's birthday, dude's 83 and though some might be salty that he made the cover of Time Magazine before Duke Ellington did, you can't deny that he and his Quartet (below) cut one of the phattest jazz LP's of all time: Time Out which not only holds the ground-breaking track "Take five" but two more of my hard-bop faves "Everybody's Jumping" ,"Blue Rhondo A La Turk", oh yeah,...
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Dakota Austin is a 12-year-old sax player, who happened to say the right thing at the right time. While at the Litchfield Jazz Festival's camp last week, he met 87-year-old Dave Brubeck, and told Dave that he was his inspiration, and also "I want to play 'Take Five' with you." Brubeck asked him if [...]~~
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...Today's Dave Brubeck's birthday, dude's 83 and though some might be salty that he made the cover of Time Magazine before Duke Ellington did, you can't deny that he and his Quartet (below) cut one of the phattest jazz LP's of all time: Time Out which not only holds the ground-breaking track "Take five" but two more of my hard-bop faves "Everybody's Jumping" ,"Blue Rhondo A La Turk", oh yeah,...
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Recently, Jazz legend Dave Brubeck was asked ahead of his performance at the 50th Monterey Jazz Festival on Sunday night how he spends his time, the 86-year-old Brubeck said: "Working, no matter where or what.""I'm always busy," he said, wearing a white jacket and large oval glasses. "Relaxing isn't a word used often in our family."For nearly 50 years, the name Dave Brubeck has been synonymous ...
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Lots of fog rollin in off of the bay these days, it's a strange juxtaposition of Summer and Autumn we are still having here.
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I've been trying to figure out a way to tell the story behind Paul Desmond's Take Five, because it's a difficult story to convey in writing. The video I've embedded, however, gives me a way to tell it.The embedded video is a fun vocalese version done by Kurt Elling and Al Jarreau using the lyrics written by Iola Brubeck, Dave's wife. Watch the video before you read the rest of the story.So, t...
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| 5 I'm in a Dancing Mood |
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