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Festival

11th Annual Brubeck Festival to Explore Communities

Source: Patrick Giblin
March 1, 2012

Dave Brubeck created community both on and off-stage from the moment he began performing. Trios, quartets, octets and even orchestras and choirs became vehicles for Dave's music. Off-stage he and Iola worked to bring groups out of the clubs, onto college campuses and into concert halls. As momentum grew so did the community until Brubeck sounds were heard the world over. This year's annual Brubeck Festival, themed “Building Communities," features select performers who have created and sustained a culture of ...

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Career

Simon Rowe Named Director of Brubeck Institute

Source: Patrick Giblin
September 7, 2011

Today, University of the Pacific President Pamela A. Eibeck announced the appointment of Simon B. Rowe, DMA, as the next director of the Brubeck Institute. An established jazz pianist, Rowe is currently associate professor of music at Minnesota State University Moorhead, where he leads the Music Industry Program, teaches on the jazz studies faculty, and leads the Simon Rowe Trio. He will begin at the Brubeck Institute on September 20. “Dr. Rowe is the ideal person to continue the Brubeck ...

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Performance / Tour

Brubeck Institute's Summer Jazz Colony to Offer Two Free Concerts This Year

Source: Patrick Giblin
July 28, 2011

Some of the best and brightest high-school-aged jazz musicians will be on the Stockton Campus of University of the Pacific to hone their skills and get advice from some of the best professional musicians in the world of jazz. But that advice no longer has to be kept between the students and professionals. For the first time in the history of the Brubeck Institute's Summer Jazz Colony, members of the public are invited to observe the evening jam session workshops ...

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Career

Dr. Steve Anderson Announces Retirement from Brubeck Institute

Source: Patrick Giblin
March 3, 2011

Steve Anderson, the former dean of the Conservatory of Music and current director of the Brubeck Institute, will retire this summer. During his nearly four-decade career in higher education, he has performed in numerous countries, collaborated with some of the biggest names in the music and film industry and expanded the scope of jazz education. A reception will be held for Anderson at 5 p.m. April 11 with the location to be determined at a later date. The reception will ...

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Festival

2011 Brubeck Festival to Focus on Creativity

Source: Patrick Giblin
March 3, 2011

Features Ground-Breaking Performances by Grammy-winning Maria Schneider Orchestra and a new Clint Eastwood Film With the central theme of “Creativity," the 2011 Brubeck festival will feature new works by several ground-breaking performers from March 31 through April 3, including the Maria Schneider Orchestra, the first music group to win a Grammy for an album that was sold exclusively on the Internet. The celebration will close with a screening of the new Clint Eastwood documentary film about Dave Brubeck called “Dave ...

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TV / Film

Brubeck Documentary to be ReBroadcast in Southern California

Source: Patrick Giblin
January 19, 2011

"Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way," a new documentary that aired on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) on Brubeck's 90th birthday last month, will be rebroadcast Feb. 8 on KCET, the largest independent public television station in the United States. KCET is based in Southern California. The movie also will be screened at The GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles on Jan. 31. That showing will be followed by a concert by the award winning Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet, a group ...

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Interview

Dave Brubeck Recovering After Pacemaker Surgery

Source: Patrick Giblin
October 13, 2010

Jazz legend Dave Brubeck is recovering in a Connecticut Hospital after having a pacemaker installed Monday. Brubeck, 89, underwent surgery after complaining of fatigue and dizziness. Doctors concluded a pacemaker was necessary. Because of the surgery, all of his performances for October have been canceled. Brubeck is expected to be released from the hospital this week and he is expected to resume touring in November. “Dave's doctors are confident he will be rehearsing in a few weeks time and back ...

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