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Dave Brubeck
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
The pianist Dave Brubeck grew up in California and studied composition with the French composer Darius Milhaud. His quartet with the alto saxophonist Paul Desmond played often at universities from the early 1950s and became popular with students as a result. In 1954 Brubeck appeared on the cover of Time. On Time Out (1959) the quartet played in unusual time signatures. Take Five, written by Desmond, is in five beats to the bar; Blue Rondo à la Turk alternates a Turkish rhythm of nine beats with swing. Brubeck had heard that rhythm in the street in Turkey. Take Five became a hit single. Later Brubeck also wrote masses and oratorios.
Listening
Take Five · Dave Brubeck, 1959
Blue Rondo à la Turk · Dave Brubeck, 1959
In Your Own Sweet Way · Dave Brubeck, 1956
Discography
Studio albums
- 1956Brubeck Plays Brubeck
- 1960Brubeck à la mode
- 1962The Real Ambassadors (soundtrack)
- 1966Time In
- 1968The Light in the Wilderness
- 1970The Gates of Justice
- 1972Truth Is Fallen
- 1973Two Generations of Brubeck
- 1974Brother, the Great Spirit Made Us All
- 19761975: The Duets
- 1976All the Things We Are
- 1979La fiesta de la posada
- 1981I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 40
- 1989The Quartet
- 1991Once When I Was Very Young
- 1991Quiet as the Moon
- 1992Plays and Plays and Plays
- 1993Trio Brubeck
- 1994Just You, Just Me
- 1994Re-Union
- 1994Take Five
- 1995Young Lions & Old Tigers
- 1996A Dave Brubeck Christmas
- 1996To Hope! A Celebration
- 1997Blue Rondo
- 1997Brubeck: Chromatic Fantasy / Stravinsky: Concertino / Weill: String Quartet no. 1, op. 8
- 1997In Their Own Sweet Way
- 1997Into the Light: Symphonic Expressions of the Spirit
- 1998Dave Brubeck Plays Standards
- 2000I'm in a Dancing Mood
- 2000One Alone: Solo Piano
- 2002Brubeck In Chattanooga
- 2003Classical Brubeck
- 2004Chromatic Fantasy Sonata / Rising Sun / The Salmon Strikes
- 2004Private Brubeck Remembers
- 2005Songs
- 2006Nocturnes
- 2007Indian Summer
- 2007Out of Nowhere
- 2009Take Five
- 2010Jazz Manifesto: Time Out / Gone with the Wind
- 2010Take Five
- 2014New World Quartets
- 2018Les Boys
- 2020Lullabies
- 2022Classics from the Master Tape C
Other work
- 1953Jazz at Oberlin
- 1959Time Out
- 1961Time Further Out
In School of Rock
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- Jazz MapNL Map
- Mixtape 5: Jazz FestivalNL Reader
- After Hours: Session 2NL Reader
- Magazine: Jazz as a Secret WeaponNL Magazine
Mentioned in other articles
- West Coast jazz Genre
The quartet of Dave Brubeck from San Francisco recorded Time Out in 1959, with Take Five by the saxophonist Paul Desmond.