{"id":10802,"date":"2012-12-05T11:47:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T19:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=10802"},"modified":"2012-12-05T17:47:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T01:47:59","slug":"dave-brubeck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/05\/dave-brubeck\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Brubeck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davebrubeck.com\/live\/\">Dave Brubeck<\/a>, an innovative and influential jazz pianist over many years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2012\/12\/05\/166570705\/dave-brubeck-legendary-jazz-musician-dead-at-age-91\">has died at the age of 91<\/a>. Based in California, he was a leader of so-called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/brubeck\/theMusic\/westCoastJazz.htm\">West Coast Jazz<\/a>, bringing a spirit of experimentation to a part of the jazz world that had been resolutely mainstream.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Dave Brubeck Quartet Blue Rondo &agrave; la Turk\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_2htbaJFEAXQ\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/2htbaJFEAXQ\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2htbaJFEAXQ\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT4M28S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2008-07-25T20:41:39Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_2htbaJFEAXQ\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/2htbaJFEAXQ\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Dave Brubeck Quartet Blue Rondo \u00e0 la Turk<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2htbaJFEAXQ\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/2htbaJFEAXQ\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Brubeck Quartet Blue Rondo &agrave; la Turk\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"&quot;The Lively Ones&quot; television show first broadcast July 25, 1962. The Quartet is shown riding a magic carpet over a freeway in Los Angeles.\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Brubeck loved to experiment with unusual time signatures, a tendency that culminated in his masterpiece album, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Time_Out_(album)\">Time Out<\/a>. The tune played above, Blue Rondo \u00e0 la Turk, is predominantly in 9\/8 time, with the beats broken mostly into a 2+2+2+3 pattern. But things aren&#8217;t quite so simple, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_Rondo_%C3%A0_la_Turk\">as Wikipedia explains<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The best thing about Brubeck&#8217;s experimentations was that they never sounded formal; they were highly musical and fun to listen to, seemingly flowing without effort unless you tried to really focus on what was going on. He was a much-beloved figure in jazz, and will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n<p>Update: An anecdote from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/russ.gershon.1\">Russ Gershon<\/a> on Facebook:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I heard him tell a story of when he was on the cover of Time in the late 50s. He was at a hotel with Duke Ellington (they were playing in the same jazz festival, maybe Newport). When Brubeck learned about the coverage he immediately went to Duke&#8217;s room and apologized that it was him and not Duke who first earned Time&#8217;s cover.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Brubeck, an innovative and influential jazz pianist over many years, has died at the age of 91. Based in California, he was a leader of so-called West Coast Jazz, bringing a spirit of experimentation to a part of the jazz world that had been resolutely mainstream. 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