Dave Brubeck, a jazz pianist and composer who made some of the most deceptively simple music of the 20th century, died yesterday morning at the age of 91. Born in Concord, Calif., on Dec. 6, Brubeck ...

Dave Brubeck, one of the most well-known jazz pianists of all time, has for some time explored new avenues in composition and performance--including his many choral compositions. This album features ...

Last week, I pulled a new album loose from an envelope and the first thought I had was, “Goodness, do we really need another live album from the Dave Brubeck Quartet?" The track list wasn't much help ...

Dave Brubeck was always in the limelight. The American jazz pianist, composer and ambassador of cool jazz was the man behind such jazz compositions as “In Your Own Sweet Way,” “The Duke” and “Summer ...

Jazz at Lincoln Center is presenting four concerts this weekend that will reimagine Louis Armstrong’s and Dave Brubeck’s 1962 album, The Real Ambassadors. Iola Brubeck and Dave Brubeck during Dave ...

While the late composer Dave Brubeck was probably best known for his contributions to jazz, he also studied and wrote extensively in the classical idiom as well. The 1997 cover of the Dave Brubeck ...

The adventure is described by Brubeck in his note for 1958’s The Dave Brubeck Quartet in Europe album (a live set recorded in Copenhagen on 5 March: pictured below left). A blizzard had hit Berlin and ...

For the Brubeck Brothers Quartet, music is more than a way to make a living; it is a lifestyle unto itself. On June 7 and June 8, locals had the opportunity to experience that for themselves at two ...

And I'm Michel Martin. On this day, 65 years ago, pianist Dave Brubeck and his quartet went into a recording studio in New York City and produced what would become the bestselling jazz single of all ...

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“The Gates of Justice,” a large-scale 1969 choral work about relations between Black and Jewish Americans, is being performed in Los Angeles. By Zachary Woolfe LOS ANGELES — “Want to give us a blast?” ...