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Dave Brubeck: The Unsquare Dance

Richard Cook, The Wire, November 1986

DAVE BRUBECK looked the part. The face that stared out from a Time magazine cover 30-odd years ago had the sober, shaven outline of a college professor and the small twinkling eyes of a frat member with a secret perversion — like drinking in the library.

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