[Dixielandjazz] NPR - "Dave Brubeck, Legendary Jazz Musician, Dead At Age 91"....Jass Musician {?!}
Robert Ringwald
rsr at ringwald.com
Wed Dec 5 12:31:37 PST 2012
Dave Brubeck, Legendary Jazz Musician, Dead At Age 91
By Eyder Peralta
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Dave Brubeck, the legendary Jazz musician, known for defying jazz conventions and for recordings
like "Take Five and "Blue Rondo a la Turk" has died.
Brubeck died of heart failure in Norwalk, Conn. He was one day short of his 92nd birthday.
Brubeck distinguished himself from other jazz musicians by defying conventions, playing unusual
time signatures and proving that complex music could find a larger audience.
His All Music biography says Brubeck distinguished himself from the popular jazz musicians of the
West Coast by playing unusual time signatures, "adventurous tonalities," and proving that complex
music could find a larger audience.
Perhaps a testimony of that was that in 1954, Brubeck became only the second jass musician ever
featured on the cover of Time Magazine. The first? Louie Armstrong.
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