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Topics => The Departed => Topic started by: IronDioPriest on December 05, 2012, 02:07:30 PM
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If you don't recognize the name off-hand, you'll recognize his signature piece of work...
Jazz composer, pianist Dave Brubeck dies (http://music.yahoo.com/news/manager-jazz-composer-pianist-dave-brubeck-dies-170407395.html)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such as "Take Five" caught listeners' ears with exotic, challenging rhythms, has died. He was 91.
Brubeck, who lived in Wilton, died Wednesday morning at Norwalk Hospital of heart failure after being stricken while on his way to a cardiology appointment with his son Darius, said his manager Russell Gloyd. Brubeck would have turned 92 on Thursday.
Brubeck had a career that spanned almost all American jazz since World War II. He formed The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1951 and was the first modern jazz musician to be pictured on the cover of Time magazine — on Nov. 8, 1954 — and he helped define the swinging, smoky rhythms of 1950s and '60s club jazz...
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five (Belgium 1964) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1S_vA0ougg#)
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'Take Five' was one of the first jazz songs I ever heard. I remember my best friend had the album and back around 4th grade (definitely before 1967; that's as far as I'm going on that) I spent a Friday night at his house and we played that song on the portable hi-fi, along with some of his Tom Lehrer albums (yes, more than one). I had brought an original 33 1/3 (but a much smaller in diameter -- and thick) Spike Jones record my parents had (and which I still have to this day), which was a hit. Yeah, I listened to weird shyt then and I listen to weird shyt now. The more things change the more you wish the hell they wouldn't.
Who needed slasher movies when you had Tom Lehrer?
Tom Lehrer- I Hold Your Hand in Mine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAVxW5uoQe8#)
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Been a Brubeck fan for ages. He'll be missed.
Never heard of Lehrer. He's definitely different.
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R.I.P. Dave.
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I must be the only person in the world that's heard of him, but doesn't recognize that song. Maybe just a little older than me.
That being said, I can hear why it was groundbreaking and popular.
RIP. 90+ is a good run.
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R.I.P never heard of him,I must be too young.
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Ha, Dean Martin didn't hang out with him.
RIP, Dave. 5/4
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Ha, Dean Martin didn't hang out with him.
RIP, Dave. 5/4
Ouch!
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Ha, Dean Martin didn't hang out with him.
RIP, Dave. 5/4
Ouch!
::falldownshocked::
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The "ouch" was intended on John's behalf, CO. You zinged him but good.
;D
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The "ouch" was intended on John's behalf, CO. You zinged him but good.
;D
I heard you the first time, I'm a dead man.
::falldownshocked::
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The "ouch" was intended on John's behalf, CO. You zinged him but good.
;D
I heard you the first time, I'm a dead man.
::falldownshocked::
Okay. I was just checking.
Don't worry about the Sicilian; he's a Poozycat.
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Ha, Dean Martin didn't hang out with him.
RIP, Dave. 5/4
We don't speak ill of them. Besides Sinatra didn't hang out with him either, DICK!