I like your eyes, I liked him, too.

OMG my college roommate's going to be sitting shiva for months.

Everybody Take Five

It's a downbeat day now

/RIP, Mr. Brubeck
//thanks

Friend of mine is a pianist in a jazz ensemble; said he'd probably slip in a bit of Take Five in one of his solos tonight.

I hear you're mad about Brubeck
I like your eyes I like him too
He's an artist a pioneer
We've got to have some music on the new frontier

Way to go for the most obvious and predictable headline, subby.

give me my Dave Bruberry you mailbox head

Jazz is terrible. It's like getting five people in a room to play five different songs at the same time and each song is shiat.*

*Opinions may vary. If you found an incongruity between this statement and your opinion then your opinion is, at its core, wrong.

That makes me sad.
I loved his work.
Thanks Dave, rest in peace.

I has a mellow, laid back sad. :(

I swear I knew what the headline would be the moment I heard he had passed.

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give me my Dave Bruberry you mailbox head

AND I SAY TO MYSELF
I NEED EXACT CHANGE

The man was an icon. RIP jazz guy...

/In before the inevitable RIP's

rip Dave and Busters

So there's no 92nd birthday party tomorrow?

Louisiana_Sitar_Club: Jazz is terrible. It's like getting five people in a room to play five different songs at the same time and each song is shiat.*

*Opinions may vary. If you found an incongruity between this statement and your opinion then your opinion is, at its core, wrong.

0/10*

*Opinions do not vary

My aloof hep-cat demeanour is riding a blue train to squaresville at this bummer news - ya dig, daddios?

I has a 5/4 sad right now.

Louisiana_Sitar_Club: Jazz is terrible. It's like getting five people in a room to play five different songs at the same time and each song is shiat.*

*Opinions may vary. If you found an incongruity between this statement and your opinion then your opinion is, at its core, wrong.

That's why I always preferred big band, but Brubeck's quartet was always very coherent for a small jazz group.

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Louisiana_Sitar_Club: Jazz is terrible. It's like getting five people in a room to play five different songs at the same time and each song is shiat.

Spoken like a man who's never played a note in his life.

But here's a hint: most ensemble "jazz" is scored, it's not nearly as improvised as you think Even Dixieland, which is highly improvisational, has some pretty strict rules about who does what and when.

Link

A nice little video from the Kennedy center honors on his birthday two years ago.

Dave Brubeck didn't write Take Five.

a true one hit wonder

I'm not going to lie, I always thought he was much younger.

RIP Brubaker

RIFF in peace, Mr. Brubeck.

Slartibeerfest: I swear I knew what the headline would be the moment I heard he had passed.

I opted for the album title (Time Out) in my rejected headline.

/"Blue Rondo a la Turk" is pretty jammin'

RIP jazzman, you were one of my biggest influences on piano.


/my playing is utter crap compared to his

I hear you're mad about Brubeck,

Charlie Freak: I like your eyes, I liked him, too.

Pants full of macaroni!!: Slartibeerfest: I swear I knew what the headline would be the moment I heard he had passed.

I opted for the album title (Time Out) in my rejected headline.

/"Blue Rondo a la Turk" is pretty jammin'

maybe if your high / stoned. when i'm straight the only music that sounds appealing is Black Sabbath / Dio / Rainbow

RIP, Dave.

Five-four time? How the hell are people supposed to dance to that - especially us white guys?

Tax Boy: Dave Brubeck didn't write Take Five.

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Welll, what do you know. I just checked out wikipedia:

Take Five" is a jazz piece written by Paul Desmond and performed by The Dave Brubeck Quartet on their 1959 album Time Out... Upon his death in 1977, Desmond left the rights to royalties for performances and compositions, including "Take Five", to the American Red Cross, which has since received combined royalties of approximately $100,000 per year.

That's kind of cool.

At any rate, I saw Dave Brubeck about a year and a half ago, and he was still a pretty damned good performer at age 89.

Louisiana_Sitar_Club: Jazz is terrible. It's like getting five people in a room to play five different songs at the same time and each song is shiat.*

*Opinions may vary. If you found an incongruity between this statement and your opinion then your opinion is, at its core, wrong.

Agrees.

Pants full of macaroni!!: Slartibeerfest: I swear I knew what the headline would be the moment I heard he had passed.

I opted for the album title (Time Out) in my rejected headline.

/"Blue Rondo a la Turk" is pretty jammin'

Best vanity plate ever - I saw blue Kia Rondo with the plate "ALA TURK".

Ah Paul Desmond wrote Take Five. Dave Brubeck had some great bands, pushed the two-tone lineup early. Very refreshing performances when they played anything.

Mokmo: Link

A nice little video from the Kennedy center honors on his birthday two years ago.

I got to see him play about a month before that at Purdue. He may have been a little old/slow but the rest of his band had a ton of energy

Jazz is stupid... I mean, just play the right notes!!!

RIP Beck

it's a bummer, man

Thanks and sleep well, sir.

Sad

Jimmy McPartland's Shades of Bix was a real cutting-edge Dixieland style record. Loves me all kindsa jazz.

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RIP Beck

RIP Dave Matthews

Death is tough to beat, 1 2 3 4 . . .

"Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny."

The Secret Life of Machines

Now only did this show expose me to a lot of cool internal workings of machines it introduced me to Dave Brubeck

I had no idea he was still alive. Well, until now.

Tip of the hat to The Secret Life of Machines by introducing me to Dave Brubeck.