Dave Brubeck

Dave Brubeck (1995)

Interview by Paul Zollo, Rock's Backpages audio, March 1995

Mr. Brubeck on his family background and first listening to jazz; on playing, writing and arranging; on jazz's place in American culture and history; and on time signatures, Paul Desmond and Joe Morello, and that tune ('Take Five').

File format: mp3; file size: 49.2mb, interview length: 53' 44" sound quality: ***

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Royal Festival Hall, London

Live Review by June Harris, Disc, 25 November 1961

Brubeck is on a waltz kick now ...

I Don't Want to Go Commercial says DAVE BRUBECK

Interview by 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 ...

Near-in Brubeck

Live Review by Ian Dove, New Musical Express, 30 November 1962

IT WAS a new Dave Brubeck on tour in Britain this time. ...

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Walnut Creel Library, Walnut Creek CA

Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 4 October 1966

Rich New Concepts In Brubeck's Jazz ...

Teo Macero: 'It May Be What Jazz Needs, The Psychedelic Touch'

Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 9 September 1967

TEO MACERO, American Columbia A&R man, arranger, and composer of experimental music, is becoming a regular visitor to Britain. Last week he was with us ...

Newport Jazz Festival 1969: New Records & Not All That Jazz

Live Review by Ian Dove, Billboard, 19 July 1969

NEWPORT, R.I. — On paper at least the experiment of adding rock music to the Newport Jazz Festival 1969 came from the purest of motives. ...

Dave Brubeck: The Unsquare Dance

Retrospective by 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 ...

Bru-Bach?

Live Review by Tim Riley, The Boston Phoenix, 2 February 1990

Let's get improvisational ...