Dave Brubeck once told me that he never tired of performing Take Five: "It gives a reading of where the quartet's at," he said. Back in 1959, when the classic Brubeck Quartet introduced the piece on ...

Dave Brubeck, a giant of American music who was largely responsible for turning modern jazz into pop music, died Wednesday a day short of his 92nd birthday. He was an ever-adventurous composer, ...

David Warren Brubeck (Dec. 6, 1920 - Dec. 5, 2012) was born in Concord, California. His father was a cattle rancher and his mother taught piano. His two older brothers, Henry and Howard, studied to ...

Brubeck's mother studied piano in England and intended to become a concert pianist; at home she taught piano for extra money. Brubeck was not particularly interested in learning by any particular ...

RIO RANCHO, N.M, (AP) — Almost eight years after his death, the final solo recording of late American jazz pianist legend Dave Brubeck is set for release next month. Verve Records announced last week ...

Dave Brubeck, the legendary jazz pianist and composer, known for defying jazz conventions and for recordings like "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo a la Turk," has died. Brubeck died of heart failure in ...

Dave Brubeck, the cool, cerebral, and popular piano player and composer who represented, for many, the face and the sound of American jazz music in the 1950s, died on Wednesday, December 5, in Norwalk ...

When pianist Dave Brubeck appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1954, he was both thrilled and embarrassed. At age 33, he was only the second jazz artist to be so honored—Louis Armstrong was ...

Dave Brubeck was an exuberant American original whose expansive musical world encompassed cowboy songs, Stravinsky, Bach, Turkish scales and two-fisted Harlem stride piano. All of that found its way ...

“The Gates of Justice,” a large-scale 1969 choral work about relations between Black and Jewish Americans, is being performed in Los Angeles. By Zachary Woolfe Brian Thomas and Brooke Husic are back ...

TO PUT Dave Brubeck in a box was an unwise thing to do. He’d just jump right out again, big, broad and strong, with those horn-rimmed glasses and that crazy, slightly cross-eyed smile. Call him cool, ...

The quartet which he led between 1951 and 1967 achieved a level of popularity rarely seen in jazz, before or since. Its recording of Take Five (1959) remains one of the few jazz records instantly ...