Some of the best things I've ever done were not planned. "When you have a great audience, something happens. "On a great night, playing live is one of my favorite things, " he said.
I think I have about 170 CDs on the market. "There are very much certain tunes people want to hear, " he said. When Brubeck puts together a concert set, he has plenty of songs from which to choose. There are songs in the Brubeck book, including "Take Five, " "Blue Rondo a la Turk, " "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke, " that have become standards. Stravinsky and Bartok were influenced by folk music and Bach used drinking songs for some of his compositions." What Bach was doing was so close to jazz. "Beethoven and Bach were improvisers, so it's not a big shift. "There's not much difference between what I do as a jazz musician and as a classical composer, " Brubeck said. where he studied with French composer Darius Milhaud, who encouraged him to study and play jazz and classical music. After his discharge, Brubeck went to Mills College in Oakland, Calif. After he graduated in 1942, Brubeck enlisted in the Army and went on to lead a band in Gen. The lure of music won out over animal doctoring. I was supposed to become a veterinarian."īrubeck worked his way through college playing piano. The compromise was I had to go to college. My dad told my mother, 'Dave belongs to me.' That was fine with me. My older brothers were educated to be music teachers. "My brother Howard was a great classical pianist who composed music for the church. There was choral work, there was piano jazz, there was cowboy music my brother's big band rehearsed at our house. "There were things going on at home that I still do today. "My range of interests is from the atmosphere of the home I was brought up in, " he said. Jazz composer, pianist Dave Brubeck dies.In the '50s and '60s, Brubeck's quartets ruled college campuses. He has worked solo and with aggregations ranging from his quartet to the most famous orchestras and choirs in the world.
In his storied career, Brubeck has played jazz, classical and sacred music. Saturday at 7:45 p.m., The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Brubeck (piano), Bobby Militello (saxophones, flute, piccolo, clarinet), Randy Jones (drums) and Michael Moore (bass) - will be in concert on the Bud Light Main Stage in Travis Park as part of the 25th anniversary of Jazz'SAlive. Two guys have been with me for 30 years." "But the band I have now is the easiest I've ever had to get along with. "It's a toss-up, " Brubeck said, laughing. So what's easier to wrangle, cattle or a band? His mom taught him to play piano, but it looked as if Brubeck was going to be a cowboy and a veterinarian. Born in Concord, Calif., in December 1920, Brubeck grew up on a 45,000-acre cattle ranch in the foothills of the Sierras.
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