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I Don't Want to Go Commercial says DAVE BRUBECK

June Harris, Disc, 25 November 1961

HAS DAVE Brubeck, who arrived in Britain for a concert tour last Friday, created a precedent with 'Take Five' that will lead to a more commercialised form of modern jazz? Has he done what Chris Barber did in the charts with 'Petite Fleur'? If he has, then one person who WON'T be jumping on the bandwagon is Brubeck himself.

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