Dave Brubeck
ALBUM
Una raccolta completa degli album di Dave Brubeck, dalle prime produzioni ai successi più recenti.
Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond
Dave Brubeck And Paul Desmond
Dave Brubeck
The Definitive Dave Brubeck on Fantasy, Concord Jazz, and Telarc
Marian McPartland, Dave Brubeck
Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz Radio Broadcast
With Special Guest Dave BrubeckDave Brubeck
Plays For Lovers
P. Desmond, Dave Brubeck
1975: The Duets
SINGOLI
I singoli più rappresentativi di Dave Brubeck, tra successi storici e nuove uscite.
VIDEO
Una selezione di video ufficiali di Dave Brubeck.
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck - Over The Rainbow
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck - Brahms Lullaby
BIOGRAFIA
Dave Brubeck has long served as proof that creative jazz and popular success can go together. Although critics who had championed him when he was unknown seemed to scorn him when the Dave Brubeck Quartet became a surprise success, in reality Brubeck never watered down or altered his music in order to gain a wide audience. Creative booking (being one of the first groups to play regularly on college campuses) and a bit of luck resulted in great popularity, and Dave Brubeck remains one of the few household names in jazz.
From nearly the start, Brubeck enjoyed utilizing poly-rhythms and poly-tonality (playing in two keys at once). He had classical training from his mother, but fooled her for a long period by memorizing his lessons and not learning to read music. He studied music at the College of the Pacific during 1938-1942. Brubeck led a service band in General Patton's Army during World War II and then, in 1946, he started studying at Mills College with the classical composer Darius Milhaud, who encouraged his students to play jazz. During 1946-1949, Brubeck led a group mostly consisting of fellow classmates, and they recorded as the Dave Brubeck Octet; their music (released on Fantasy in 1951) still sounds advanced today, with complex time signatures and some poly-tonality. The octet was too radical to get much work, so Brubeck formed a trio with drummer Cal Tjader (who doubled on vibes) and bassist Ron Crotty. The trio's Fantasy recordings of 1949-1951 were quite popular in the Bay Area, but the group came to an end when Brubeck hurt his back during a serious swimming accident and was put out of action for months.
Upon his return in 1951, Brubeck was persuaded by altoist Paul Desmond to make the group a quartet. Within two years, the band had become surprisingly popular. Desmond's cool-toned alto and quick wit fit in well with Brubeck's often heavy chording and experimental playing; both Brubeck and Desmond had original sounds and styles that owed little to their predecessors. Joe Dodge was the band's early drummer but, after he tired of the road, the virtuosic Joe Morello took his place in 1956; while the revolving bass chair finally settled on Eugene Wright in 1958. By then, Brubeck had followed his popular series of Fantasy recordings with some big sellers on Columbia, and had appeared on the cover of Time (1954). The huge success of Paul Desmond's "Take Five" (1960) was followed by many songs played in "odd" time signatures such as 7/4 and 9/8; the high-quality soloing of the musicians kept these experiments from sounding like gimmicks. Dave and Iola Brubeck (his wife and lyricist) put together an anti-racism show featuring Louis Armstrong (The Real Ambassadors) which was recorded, but its only public appearance was at the Monterey Jazz Festival in the early '60s.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet constantly traveled around the world until its breakup in 1967. After some time off, during which he wrote religious works, Brubeck came back the following year with a new quartet featuring Gerry Mulligan, although he would have several reunions with Desmond before the altoist's death in 1977. Brubeck joined with his sons Darius (keyboards), Chris (electric bass and bass trombone), and Danny (drums) in Two Generations of Brubeck in the 1970s. In the early '80s, tenor saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi was in the Brubeck Quartet, and beginning in the mid-'80s, clarinetist Bill Smith (who was in the original octet) alternated with altoist Bobby Militello.
There is no shortage of Dave Brubeck records currently available, practically everything he cut for Fantasy, Columbia, Concord, and Telarc are easy to locate. Brubeck, whose compositions "In Your Own Sweet Way," "The Duke," and "Blue Rondo a la Turk" have become standards, remained very busy (despite some bouts of bad health) into the 2000s.
by Scott Yanow
Courtesy of All Music & the Verve Music Group
ULTIME NEWS
04.11.2020
Dave Brubeck interpreta "Over The Rainbow": guarda il cartone animato!
La versione per piano solo di "Over The Rainbow" di Dave Brubeck non è solo lo spunto per un tenero cartone animato (che ha comunque il grande pregio di aiutare i genitori a mandare a nanna i più piccoli...), ma è soprattutto una delle più incantevoli interpretazioni di una canzone nota in tutto il mondo. Il brano viene da "Lullabies", l'ultima incisione in studio del grande maestro che, a quasi novant'anni (il mese prossimo cade il centenario della nascita) realizzò il sogno di un disco capace di cullare tutto il suo pubblico: anche quello adulto. Missione compiuta: grazie, Maestro. "Lullabies" - una registrazione interamente inedita - uscirà venerdì su etichetta Verve: prenota la tua copia!
05.10.2020
Verve Records annuncia la pubblicazione di 'Lullabies', l'ultima incisione in studio di Dave Brubeck: il primo video!
Verve Records annuncia la pubblicazione di Lullabies, una collezione di celebri pezzi per l’infanzia e composizioni originali pensate per la famiglia realizzata da un vero gigante del jazz, Dave Brubeck, nell'ultima registrazione in studio del grande maestro. già da oggi è disponible il brano che apre il disco, “Brahms Lullaby”: guarda Il video (tanto carezzevole e cullante...) e prenota fin da ora "Lullabies"
06.12.2012
