Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time

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This was a perfectly balanced mechanism with an immediately identifiable sound, thanks largely to the ethereal purity of Desmond’s tone in the group’s foreground. Also, if you have lingering doubts abouts Dave's Jazziness, listen to the fabulous gem (imho of course! At a different level, Clark is sensitive to the musicians’ human characteristics, such as Desmond’s destructive ego and alcohol problems. I remember Bill Smith coming along with Boyd Raeburn, who he loved, and I was very keen on Stan Kenton.Quite a bit about Dave's early experience of Milhaud, Stravinsky, Bartok and Schonberg (all of who settled in the USA from 1940 onwards), and the effect this had on steering Dave away from the 1950s prevailing bebop (with its characteristic fast, busy and intricate improvisation on melody and chord progressions) towards a sort of cool approach, with the soloist improvising strongly on key changes (discusses Dave insisting on the Bass player staying in a constant key). Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images View image in fullscreen Dave Brubeck at the piano with (from left) Paul Desmond, Joe Morello and Eugene Wright, in 1959. Alongside beloved figures like Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra, Brubeck's music has achieved name recognition beyond jazz.

It was an album that could melt into the background or send people to the dance floor but which also revealed, and continues to reveal, further harmonic, timbral, and melodic subtleties with each careful listen.

Few knew he couldn’t read music, yet he created a unique musical idiom that encapsulated much of the ’60s sound.

DAVE BRUBECK: A Life in Time is about the timeless life of the inspired and inspiring jazz master Dave Brubeck.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The brain, hopefully, grasps increasingly complex interrelationships between unrelated chords as our ears acquire a taste for a tarter and more aromatic harmonic palette. In Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time , Clark provides us with a thoughtful, thorough, and long-overdue biography of an extraordinary man whose influence continues to inform and inspire musicians today. It is the kind of writing that will drive the reader back to the records enabling the reader to hear the music as if for the first time.