Dave Brubeck first recorded his composition The Duke during a live performance at New York's Basin Street East on October 13, 1954. His quartet at the time consisted of Paul Desmond (as), Dave Brubeck ...

Room to Dream is available in paperback, hardcover, and on Kindle on Amazon. Lynch and McKenna also narrate the Room to Dream audiobook, which fans of the director can listen to on Audible. Plans ...

In 1959 the Dave Brubeck Quartet released “Blue Rondo à la Turk” and I just went crazy. Mr. Smith had the album and I listened to it as the Smiths’ house and fell in love with it.” ...

Nope, neither of those. In 2019, the Belgian collector Guy Minnebach discovered a vinyl album of jazz great Paul Desmond, saxophonist for the Dave Brubeck Quartet, whose cover is a portrait of ...

The same year, he wrote a tune he called Audrey. It's the first track on The Dave Brubeck Quartet's 1955 album Brubeck Time. Desmond died of lung cancer in 1977, never knowing whether or not ...

For Mark Morganelli, 1985 was a watershed year. He married Ellen Prior and started a free summer jazz concert series in Riverside Park on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.   This year, […] ...

It just doesn’t “feel” good. To illustrate my point, head to YouTube and find “Take Five” by the Dave Brubeck Quartet and see if you can tap your toe and count. Good luck. In an article I wrote long ...

By the mid-50s, for instance, Count Basie’s 16-piece band was being paid the same amount as Dave Brubeck’s quartet. Gibbs’ decision therefore might have seemed something of a risk but the Dream Band ...

Her current summer workshops include positions at the Salzburg Jazz Seminar, the Centrum Jazz Camp at Port Townsend, and The Brubeck Institute ... of many years with Chico Hamilton, Dave Holland, the ...

A key member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet between 1951 and 1957 (he wrote the group’s most famous tune, the big crossover hit “Take Five”), this San Francisco-born alto saxophonist’s light ...

LA CROSSE (WKBT) -- The Acclaimed Artaria String Quartet performed at Viterbo University Sunday. The group has performed at the university for 32 years. They performed six Mozart quartets ...