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Darius Brubeck Quartet: Live Again

Read "Live Again" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
November 6, 2026

"I think I play better on stage than in a recording studio," says pianist Darius Brubeck, so it comes as no surprise that his quartet's follow-up to Live In Poland (Ubuntu Music, 2019) is another live recording. Live Again was captured in Italy, where the band were invited to perform seven concerts in four days by the Brass Foundation of Palermo. Eight tracks are taken from the best performances from those concerts, together with an additional track recorded in the ...

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Larry Coryell: Improvisations: Best of the Vanguard Years

by Josef Woodard
February 6, 2023

There have been many smoother operators in the world of jazz guitar than Larry Coryell, the brainy rough rider who was a natural-born fusioneer, in the best sense. There have been cleaner technicians on the instrument, with a more lucid sense of identity and careers that have followed a logical, rolling landscape. But not many have quite attained Coryell's strange, madly eclectic state of grace: into music he came, he saw and heard things not yet articulated, he conquered on ...

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The Darius Brubeck Quartet: Live In Poland

Read "Live In Poland" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
November 30, 2019

Early on in his career, the pianist Darius Brubeck bowed to the inevitable. Accepting that he was always going to be compared to his father, Dave Brubeck, he both embraced his heritage and sidelined it. In the 1970s, embracing it, he was a member of Two Generations Of Brubeck and The New Brubeck Quartet, groups which played original material but had audiences who came along mainly to hear performances of tunes written by or associated with Brubeck père: “(It's A) ...

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The Darius Brubeck Quartet: For Lydia and the Lion

Read "For Lydia and the Lion" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
January 22, 2009

The first music that Darius Brubeck became familiar with was jazz, which is not surprising given the family he was born into. Brubeck studied the music and played it along with his father Dave and his brothers Chris and Dan as well as his own groups. Brubeck, however, did not confine himself to that one form; he expanded his repertoire with several styles including Indian and African music, rock and folk. Moreover, he played electronic piano and the synthesizer. His ...