After my post on Alan Broadbent's new album, Broadbent Plays Brubeck, I spent a chunk of time yesterday listening to the Dave Brubeck Quartet. I also slid onto YouTube for a bit. Here's what came up ...

The Brubeck Brothers Quartet — playing Friday and Saturday at The Smith Center’s Cabaret Jazz — “very consciously tried,” in bassist and trombonist Chris Brubeck’s words, to “do music that wasn’t Dave ...

MURRAY HORWITZ, American Film Institute: Well, there you have the saxophone sound that, according to President Clinton, inspired him to take up the saxophone. That's Paul Desmond's alto sax, playing ...

Brubeck's quartet's great success was partly due to Joe Morello's flashy drumming and partly to the contrast between the exuberant Brubeck and the imperturbably serene Paul Desmond. The alto ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Dave Brubeck Quartet’s 1959 Time Out album, which includes the popular hit “Take Five”, was the first jazz ...

Columbia executives blocked its release for nearly a year — until label President Goddard Lieberson intervened. "They said, 'We never put out music that people can't dance to, and they can't dance to ...

1959 was arguably the most transformative year for jazz releases. By Raj Tawney 1959 was arguably the most transformative year for jazz releases. It was a year of exploration for a genre no longer at ...

Time Out is not only Dave Brubeck's signature recording, it is also his first (and best) foray into an exploration of time signatures themselves. By its very nature, the idiom of jazz has ventured ...

Dave Brubeck, the jazz pianist, composer and bandleader behind the legendary Dave Brubeck Quartet, has died at age 91. The death of Brubeck, whose quartet performed “Take Five,” which became a jazz ...

Dave Brubeck emerged after the Second World War as a pianist whose eclectic style owed itself to several different schools of piano playing. Throughout the 1950's, Brubeck enjoyed as much commercial ...

What can you say about pianist and composer Dave Brubeck that hasn’t already been said? At the ripe age of 82, he’s been at the forefront of so many movements in music, starting with the whole West ...