eviltrailer77 Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Dave Brubeck, a jazz musician who attained pop-star acclaim with recordings such as "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo a la Turk," died Wednesday morning at Norwalk Hospital, in Norwalk, Conn., said his longtime manager-producer-conductor Russell Gloyd. Brubeck was one day short of his 92nd birthday. He died of heart failure, en route to "a regular treatment with his cardiologist,” said Gloyd. Throughout his career, Brubeck defied conventions long imposed on jazz musicians. The tricky meters he played in “Take Five” and other works transcended standard conceptions of swing rhythm. The extended choral/symphonic works he penned and performed around the world took him well outside the accepted boundaries of jazz. And the concerts he brought to colleges across the country in the 1950s shattered the then-long-held notion that jazz had no place in academia. As a pianist, he applied the classical influences of his teacher, the French master Darius Milhaud, to jazz, playing with an elegance of tone and phrase that supposedly were the antithesis of the American sound. As a humanist, he was at the forefront of integration, playing black jazz clubs throughout the deep South in the ’50s, a point of pride for him. "For as long as I’ve been playing jazz, people have been trying to pigeonhole me,” he once told the Tribune. "Frankly, labels bore me." For those of you that don't know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faJE92phKzI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbUklDXdH2o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8PQBYEkHHg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHMCtzWdEkQ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Bummer. RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
injury Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 fuuuuck! sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
100%juice Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 holy shit. RIP Dave. a great contribution I suppose I'll have to dig out some wax for a bit of a tribute later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
massgraff Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Take 5's that shit. rip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 He was 92....I don't feel like he got shortchanged in the longevity department. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eviltrailer77 Posted December 5, 2012 Author Share Posted December 5, 2012 No, he lived a long and full life. He also left an amazing body of pioneering work. I didn't make this thread to lament a life cut short, but to maybe, just maybe, get some of the gucci mane, two chainz, lil b listening kids round here to click a link and get some of that "swag" blasted out with a jolt of culture. Just found this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbrshmonster Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allfreetime Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 RIP. One of my all time faves. I have an original copy of Take Five (*Time Out) somewhere. Apparently he died while being taken to a routine visit with his cardiologist. Doctors.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mao Tse Fun Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 He was 92....I don't feel like he got shortchanged in the longevity department. Indeed, a jazz musician from that era making it to 92 is like a regular person living to be 250. RIP nonetheless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crocodile Tears Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Dude was tremendously talented. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 He's no 2 Chainz tho. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doodle Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 RIP a true legend It's nice to see there is some people around here that appreciate real music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fictionator Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 dude was great, rip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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IOU_TOO Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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