Jazz Articles about Dave Brubeck

Dave Brubeck: Brubeck In Wonderland

by David Rickert
April 16, 2007

Brubeck recorded his most durable work with Time Out, which launched a series of successful albums by the stately jazzman for the Columbia label in 1959. However, his earlier works for the Fantasy label, which find him fully entrenched in the cool scene, are arguably more rewarding. Brubeck had not yet stumbled upon the gimmickry of the odd time signatures and tributes to foreign countries that dominated his '60s recordings. Instead, these early recordings feature a more ragged kind of ...

Dave Brubeck Quartet at the 1993 Montreux-Detroit Jazz Festival

by Ken Dryden
December 30, 2006

Public radio listeners were frequently frustrated when the Chicago Jazz Festival and Montreux-Detroit Jazz Festival offered live satellite feeds to stations on the identical weekend (Labor Day), causing program directors to typically air one or the other, unless they chose to archive and rebroadcast the alternate.

Montreux-Detroit's lineup rivaled Chicago's, but the Motor City broadcasts had one major flaw: someone instructed the hosts of the nationally syndicated broadcasts to start talking at the top of the hour, whether ...

Dave Brubeck - TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival

by Brenton Plourde
August 19, 2006

Like all the other concerts within the last 60 years, all the miles logged and all the other countries traveled, this one was for Iola.

Bringing an end to the 20th edition of the TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival, piano legend Dave Brubeck and his Quartet opened to the sellout crowd with a rendition of “Gone with Wind." By the third song Brubeck approached the microphone to explain the origins of “London Flat, London Sharp," from the 2005 Telarc ...

Dave Brubeck Quartet: London Flat, London Sharp

by George Harris
August 29, 2005

It's ironic that Dave Brubeck, alive and well into his 80's, is best known for a song he didn't even write over forty years ago. Ironic, because, as London Flat, London Sharp testifies, his own writing has only improved with age. With the wisdom that comes with decades of playing, his touch on the piano, while still spry, has lightened up from it's oft-criticized heavy handedness of an earlier time.

With lengthy intros, as on the tango “Time ...

London Flat, London Sharp, Private Brubeck Remembers and Jazz at the College of the Pacific

by Brian P. Lonergan
June 7, 2005

Dave Brubeck Quartet London Flat, London Sharp Telarc 2005

There are not many jazz pianists who have actively gigged and recorded for 60 years. Dave Brubeck's clean living has allowed him to continue producing, at nearly 85 years old, such excellent albums as London Flat, London Sharp. One of Brubeck's great strengths is harmonic inventiveness, which shows up in his crunchy chord voicings and polytonal improvisations. But he also ...

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: London Flat, London Sharp

by Jim Santella
June 1, 2005

Dave Brubeck will turn 85 in December. He's given the world a clear picture of what jazz is and which threads remain as its core elements. We'll always be thankful for that.

Recorded in a New York studio last year with his current quartet, London Flat, London Sharp presents nine of the pianist's compositions and one by Derrill Bodley. Mr. Bodley wrote “Steps to Peace" for his daughter, who was aboard Flight 93 when it crashed in rural ...

Dave Brubeck Quartet: London Flat, London Sharp

by Woodrow Wilkins
May 26, 2005

Straight and fast. That's how the Dave Brubeck Quartet grabs you with the opening title song of London Flat, London Sharp. Surrounded by a supporting cast of Bobby Militello, Michael Moore, and Randy Jones, the pianist is at the top of his game on this new outing. Clocking in at just under an hour, with ten tracks ranging from the three-and-a- half-minute ballad “Steps to Peace to the strutting, eight-minute “Mr. Fats, the album covers plenty of ground and takes ...