Dave Brubeck, Who Helped Put Jazz Back in Vogue, Dies at 91
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Re: Dave Brubeck, Who Helped Put Jazz Back in Vogue, Dies at 91
#2I have such great memories of enjoying Brubeck's music with my late grandparents, delivered off dusty LPs. Take Five is, for all it's over-saturation, still one of my favorite pieces of all time (and Time Out is one of my favorite albums). While his passing is sad, dying at 91 and leaving such an amazing legacy is all we can really hope for.
Re: Dave Brubeck, Who Helped Put Jazz Back in Vogue, Dies at 91
#3Dave Brubeck was awesome. Glad to hear that he lived to a ripe old age. I don't know much about him, but I hope his years were as fun, energetic, and awesome as his music.
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#4I learned of Dave's music when I tracked down the theme song used in "The Secret Life of Machines" (which was "Take Five"). I bought his album "Time out" that had that song on it and really enjoyed it. Then bought the Christmas Album. Sad to hear he has died, but glad he chose to share his music with us.
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#5"put jazz back in vogue"? i've searched the article and still can't work out what this is referring to. is he particularly prized in the usa? was he some kind of tv personality?
(i listen to a fair bit of jazz; respect to the guy - he made one of the famous jazz records - but if he was the first jazz musician on time's cover that, in honesty, says a lot more about time, american culture, and his skin colour (no criticism of brubeck implied - see the article for his impeccable credentials there) than his status as a jazz musician).
Re: Dave Brubeck, Who Helped Put Jazz Back in Vogue, Dies at 91
#6I learned of Dave's music when I tracked down the theme song used in "The Secret Life of Machines" (which was "Take Five"). I bought his album "Time out" that had that song on it and really enjoyed it. Then bought the Christmas Album. Sad to hear he has died, but glad he chose to share his music with us.
the amazing thing about his music is that it still sounds extremely contemporary, take five is the perfect example - david holmes does a better job of sounding "old"
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#7Yesterday night I was at this tribute concert to Dave Brubeck... We thought he was still alive then. It was an electrifying concert.
(trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heAAOVJTLwQ )
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#8"put jazz back in vogue"? i've searched the article and still can't work out what this is referring to. is he particularly prized in the usa? was he some kind of tv personality? (i listen to a fair bit of jazz; respect to the guy - he made one of the famous jazz records - but if he was the first jazz musician on time's cover that, in honesty, says a lot more about time, american culture, and his skin colour (no criti…
> "but if he was the first jazz musician on time's cover that, in honesty, says a lot more about time"
That's a mistake in the obituary: he was the second jazz musician to make the cover of Time. Louis Armstrong was first, five years earlier in 1949 (http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19490221,00.html)
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#9"Take five" was actually a great jazz theme that I always compare to great programming, saying: "You want to know how the great code looks like? Listen to this."
Rest in peace, Mr Brubeck.
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#10"put jazz back in vogue"? i've searched the article and still can't work out what this is referring to. is he particularly prized in the usa? was he some kind of tv personality? (i listen to a fair bit of jazz; respect to the guy - he made one of the famous jazz records - but if he was the first jazz musician on time's cover that, in honesty, says a lot more about time, american culture, and his skin colour (no criti…
It's right in the third paragraph:
"In a long and successful career, Mr. Brubeck helped repopularize jazz at a time when younger listeners had been trained to the sonic dimensions of the three-minute pop single. His quartet’s 1959 recording of “Take Five” was the first jazz single to sell a million copies."
He got a jazz record up the pop charts at a time when that was not really something that was happening.