dave brubeck Archive
18 May 2022
Album Review: Dave Brubeck Trio – Live from Vienna 1967
The latest in posthumous recordings courtesy of the Brubeck Editions series, Live from Vienna 1967 is a thrilling, you-are-there live recording featuring the pianist and superb sidemen Joe Morello on […]
09 Jan 2021
Album Review: Dave Brubeck — Lullabies
If someone had asked me a few years ago if I thought I’d be writing a week’s worth of content in 2021 about Dave Brubeck, I would have shot them […]
08 Jan 2021
Album Review: The Dave Brubeck Quartet — Time Outtakes
Released in 1959, The Dave Brubeck Quartet’s Time Out is a landmark album. An accomplished synthesis of West Coast and cool jazz, it’s remarkable for combining “unusual” time signatures – […]
07 Jan 2021
The Chris Brubeck Interview, Part Four
Continued from Part Three. In this final part of my lively conversation with Chris Brubeck, he relates a funny story about an album he made many, many years ago with […]
06 Jan 2021
The Chris Brubeck Interview, Part Three
Continued from Part Two. In Part Three of my conversation with Chris Brubeck, we talk about the idea of instrumental works still having subject matter, and the mystical communication that […]
05 Jan 2021
The Chris Brubeck Interview, Part Two
Continued from Part One. In this segment of my conversation with Chris Brubeck, he reflects on what he learned from his famous father, and his rather unusual choice of instrument. […]
04 Jan 2021
The Chris Brubeck Interview, Part One
I spoke with Chris Brubeck in mid-February 2020; the primary reason for the interview was in connection with then-upcoming concert dates featuring the Brubeck Brothers Quartet. You can guess where […]
09 Nov 2018
Album Review: Dave Brubeck — Time In
The opening solo piano strains of “Last Waltz,” the opening track on Dave Brubeck’s 1966 LP Time In are lovely enough. But they suggest that the album is going to […]
14 Nov 2012
The Very Best Of…Concord Jazz Artists
Because Concord Music Group has acquired the licensing to some of the most venerable labels in all of music (Stax, Fantasy, Riverside, Prestige, and others) as well as large chunks […]
20 Dec 2010
Album Review: Dave Brubeck – The Definitive Dave Brubeck on Fantasy, Concord Jazz, and Telarc
“Definitive” is a strong word. Not to belabor the obvious, but it means to define something; definitive means that the things affords an accurate representation of another thing. In this […]