...music ever played since jazz was born" and described him in pseudo-hip prose as "a wigging cat with a far-out wail." Dave Brubeck would be the last person to call himself a "wigging cat." He has, in fact, perhaps the most unlikely background of anyone who...
...recordings made at the festival between 1958 and last year. The most striking release is from Dave Brubeck: 50 Years of Dave Brubeck, Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival 1958-2007. And it’s true: the classic Brubeck Quartet played at the very first festival...
...won praise from the top U.S. diplomat, who listened to his music as a girl. "As a little girl I grew up on the sounds of Dave Brubeck because my dad was your biggest fan," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said at ceremony where Brubeck received...
...<table> </table> Approaching his 88th birthday, Dave Brubeck has the air of an elder statesman.</p><p>But Brubeck, in town tonight with his quartet to open the Folly Jazz Series, didn’t get that status by making compromises. His piano playing, his composing...
...chronologically we catch up with Brubeck following the early success of their Jazz Goes To College Album. Featuring The Dave Brubeck Quartet and (as the liner notes reveal) his “long-time colleague and musical sparring partner Paul Desmond,” Acrobat includes...
...he'd assembled with restored spare parts, and as a paper boy for the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner. All jazz legend Dave Brubeck really wanted to do growing up in Concord in the 1920s and '30s was to follow in his father's footsteps as a cattle rancher. "My...
...the use of supertitles is an experiment and there are no plans to use them during the regular subscription season. Sept. 21: Dave Brubeck turned down $17,000 in round-trip transportation and performance fees for his quartet for a proposed South African tour...
...legend Dave Brubeck, stellar bassist-composer Charlie Haden, “free” jazz pioneer Cecil Taylor and award-winning songwriter Randy Newman are among the top acts set to perform at the 2008 San Francisco Jazz Festival. Tickets for SFJAZZ’s 26th annual fall classic,...
...from U.S. Secretary Of State Condoleeza Rice in Washington, D.C. Rice said, "As a little girl I grew up on the sounds of Dave Brubeck because my dad was your biggest fan. Thank you for your patriotism and your leadership in representing America by introducing...
...Jazz Festival (previously: Cal Tjader) is one that fits me like a bespoke suit, because it features one of my favorites. Dave Brubeck. is exactly what you'd infer from the title, a celebration of Brubeck's many appearances through the years. It doesn't get...