A hundred years ago, on December 6, 1920, Dave Brubick was a Grammy Award-winning American pianist, composer, and outstanding figure in the history of jazz, the pinnacle of brilliant jazz, whose name is closely related to the evergreen Take Five.
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David Warren Brubick was born in Concord, California, his father was a rancher, and his mother was a trained pianist in England. He had already taken music lessons from his mother at the age of four, but it ended for a while at the age of 12 because the family moved to a farm and started Dave. „Cowboy life“. Early in his higher education, he still wanted to become a veterinarian even when he got home to work with his father, he created tuition fees by performing in night bars. Then one of his professors advised him, since his mind was on music anyway, that he would prefer to go to the conservatory, which he was happy with. Here he was somewhat confused because he hadn’t been able to pitch yet (he played an unknown piece of note for the first time), but he was so talented that he could graduate, and he just had to promise that he’d never teach piano.
Recruited during World War II, his corps was there on the coast of Normandy on June 6, 1944, but without Brubeck. He had been enjoying his companions playing the piano a few days earlier, and the general present in the evening had taken him out of his sub-unit so he could demonstrate his knowledge as a member of the Quartet. He had already participated in the liberation of Germany, and was received on D-Day in Regensburg.
After dismantling it, Darius Miloud studied composing with a French composer at Mills College in Auckland and also took a few hours from Arnold Schönberg. He incorporated much of his classical music into jazz, and his art was heavily influenced by Bach, Beethoven and Chopin, and by the jazz genre of Duke Ellington, Art Tatum and Errol Garner, among others. In 1947, he formed his eight-member squad, which soon narrowed down into a trilogy and released many well-received recordings.
After an almost fatal accident in 1951, pianist formed a quadruple, and his trio was joined by saxophonist Paul Desmond, a former octagonist. Within a decade and a half of its existence, the band has garnered rave critics and audiences, playing with legends like Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Stan Getz. Their biggest hit was Desmond’s composition, Take Five, who also toured pop charts. Its popularity is shown by the image of Brubeck in 1954 – after Louis Armstrong as the second jazz musician – She has also appeared on the cover of American Time magazine.
They embarked on an international tour for the first time in 1958, touring Poland, India, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq on a tour secretly sponsored by the State Department. The trip had a major impact not only on the audience there, but also on the musician, as he got acquainted with popular multi-rhythm music (meaning that many rhythms can be heard in polyphonic music at the same time), which fundamentally changed his musical thinking. Proof of this is Blue Rondo a la Turk and Take Five, which became a trademark of Probek, on the album Time Out released a year later. Time Out was the first jazz record to surpass a million copies sold, and it remains one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time.
Brubeck performed with his teams for more than six decades, and in 1997 and 2003 he also toured Budapest. With his various lineups, he was a regular participant of the most prestigious festivals, and released over a hundred records. Four of his six children also chose the musical track, and either performed or recorded a recording together multiple times. He played the pianist in front of several American presidents, and gained a serious reputation as a composer. In addition to the jazz genre, he wrote ballets and musicals (for example the true ambassadors of Louis Armstrong), speeches, cantats, television and film music, string quartets, chamber music, orchestral acts, and a mini-opera after Steinbeck.
He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Medal of Arts in 1994, the highest American Medal of Arts, the Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1996, the Kennedy Center Award in 2009, and a star gracing the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and an asteroid. about him. In 2000, he and his wife founded the Brubeck Institute to support talented musicians, and in 2010 a documentary about his life was filmed, one of the jazz producers Clint Eastwood was.
Dave Brubick passed away on December 5, 2012, one day before his 92nd birthday. His last 100th birthday singles, baby songs on his lullabies album, popular classics were released. – Like Summertime, Over The Rainbow, Danny Boy, and Brahms Lullaby – Intimate renditions can be heard.
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