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Dave Brubeck
Back to overview David Warren "Dave" Brubeck, born 1920 in California, studied music among others with Darius Milhaud and Arnold Schönberg. While still a student, Brubeck founded an Octet. In 1949 Brubeck started a trio, which he expanded to a quartet in 1951 and spent several years playing only jazz standards. In 1954 Brubeck appeared as the first musician after Louis Armstrong on the cover of Time Magazine. Then he formed the Dave Brubeck Quartet. In 1959 he led his brother, Howard Brubeck's, "Dialogue for Jazz Combo and Symphony" with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. At the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival he interpreted his "Elementals" for quartet and symphony orchestra; the same year he gave a concert at the White House.
He gave concerts in about 80 cities per year. Brubeck composed numerous jazz standards, but Paul Desmond, his longtime musical partner, wrote the assuredly most famous piece of the Dave Brubeck Quartet: "Take Five."
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Interview by Dana Gioia
April 2006
Last summer, I visited legendary jazz musician Dave Brubeck at his home in Wilton, Connecticut, where we spoke about the importance of cultural diplomacy. Few people in the world know more firsthand about the subject than Brubeck.
In 1956, with the guiding support of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, the U.S. Department of State sent the nation's finest jazz musicians abroad as goodwill representatives in a conscious effort to symbolize America's commitment to freedom. The Jazz Ambassadors program was launched at the bitterest point in the Cold War to bring the best of American culture to the rest of the world. The program not only focused on Iron Curtain nations but also the Third World where many developing countries were exploring Marxism as a possible political identity. The first Jazz Ambassador was trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and two years later Brubeck joined the ranks that would eventually include Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Benny Goodman, and Miles Davis. These musicians reached audiences in the millions, not
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Dave Brubeck
American jazz pianist and composer (1920–2012)
Musical artist
David Warren Brubeck (; December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Often regarded as a foremost exponent of cool jazz, Brubeck's work is characterized by unusual time signatures and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, tonalities, and combining different styles and genres, like classic, jazz, and blues.
Born in Concord, California, Brubeck was drafted into the US Army, but was spared from combat service when a Red Cross show he had played at became a hit. Within the US Army, Brubeck formed one of the first racially diverse bands. In 1951, he formed the Dave Brubeck Quartet, which kept its name despite shifting personnel. The most successful—and prolific—lineup of the quartet was the one between 1958 and 1968. This lineup, in addition to Brubeck, featured saxophonist Paul Desmond, bassist Eugene Wright and drummer Joe Morello. A U.S. Department of State-sponsored tour in 1958 featuring the band inspired several of Brubeck's subsequent albums, most notably t
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