Dave Brubeck
friday random ten, 1959 edition
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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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Improv at the MOG
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http://music.aol.com/artist/dave-brubeck/6198/main(Dave Brubeck in an AOL Session)http://www.pbs.org/brubeck/theMusic/musicDownload.htm(PBS on Dave Brubeck)I'm loving Brubeck for the beginning of my work day. I'm at my desk now, my little heater is buzzing, I'm having a Starbucks Doubleshot Light Espresso and Cream, and life is good.From Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy:"Improvisation holds a spe...
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Dave Brubeck, 88 Keys, 88 Years, Another Honor
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On Tuesday, Dave Brubeck was inducted into the California Hall of Fame along with eleven others including actors Jane Fonda and Jack Nicholson, fitness maven Jack LaLanne, musician and producer Quincy Jones, chef Alice Waters and -- posthumously -- Theodore Geiss (Dr. Seuss ), scientist Linus Pauling, architect Julia Morgan, and Dorothea Lange, the photographer best known for documenting the ...
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Brubeck generations jazz jam
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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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The Birth of The Cool
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The cool could not survive the 1960s, when all the repressed energies and conflicts of American society burst to the surface. But in its own time it was more than just a passing style. The cool did not try to change the world; rather, it was an end in itself.It was a way of being that turned its back on the anxious striving and the inauthentic routines of corporate, middle-class life. To be cool
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