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David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz. Many of his compositions have become jazz standards including “In Your Own Sweet Way” and “The Duke”. Brubeck’s style ranged from refined to bombastic, reflecting both his mother’s classical training and his own improvisational skills. His music is known for employing unusual time signatures as well as superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, and tonalities.
Brubeck experimented with time signatures throughout his career, recording “Pick Up Sticks” in 6/4, “Unsquare Dance” in 7/4, “World’s Fair” in 13/4, and “Blue Rondo à la Turk” in 9/8. He was also a composer of orchestral and sacred music and wrote soundtracks for television, such as Mr. Broadway and the animated miniseries This Is America, Charlie Brown.
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Often incorrectly attributed to Brubeck, the song “Take Five“, which has become a jazz standard, was composed by Brubeck’s long-time musical partner, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond.Appearing on one of the top-selling jazz albums, Time Out, and written in 5/4 time, “Take Five” has endured as a jazz classic associated with Brubeck.
Awards
- Connecticut Arts Award (1987)
- National Medal of Arts, National Endowment for the Arts (1994)
- DownBeat Hall of Fame (1994)
- Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1996)
- Doctor of Sacred Theology, Doctorate honoris causa, University of Fribourg, Switzerland (2004)
- Laetare Medal (University of Notre Dame) (2006)
- BBC Jazz Lifetime Achievement Award (2007)
- Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Diplomacy (2008)
- Inducted into California Hall of Fame (2008)
- Eastman School of Music Honorary Degree (2008)
- Kennedy Center Honors (2009)
- George Washington University Honorary Degree (2010)
- Honorary Fellow of Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey (2011)
Dave Brubeck Discography
Dave Brubeck Catalog – album index
1942 (age 22)
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz At The College Of The Pacific Volume 2 Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-1076-2 2002 1948
Dave Brubeck Octet Fantasy LP 3-239 1956 1949
Dave Brubeck Trio Fantasy LP 3-204 1956 1950 (age 30)
The Dave Brubeck Trio - Distinctive Rhythm Instrumentals Fantasy LP 3-205 1956 1951
Brubeck Desmond Fantasy LP 3-229 1956
V.A. - Jazz Confidential Crown CLP 5056
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Paul Desmond Quartet - Cal Tjader Crown CLP 5288
Dave Brubeck - Modern Complex Dialogues Alto AL 711 1970s 1952
Brubeck Desmond - Jazz At Storyville Fantasy LP 3-240 1956
Dave Brubeck Quartet Fantasy LP 3-230 1956
Dave Brubeck Quartet Featuring Paul Desmond - Jazz At The Blackhawk Fantasy LP 3-210 1956 1953
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz At Oberlin Fantasy LP 3-245 1957
Dave Brubeck, The Jackson-Harris Herd, Woody Herman - The Jackson-Harris Herd And The Dave Brubeck Quartet Jazz Band (E) EBCD 2140-2 1998
Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond At Wilshire-Ebell Fantasy LP 3249 1957
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz At The College Of The Pacific Fantasy LP 3-223 1956 1954
Dave Brubeck At Storyville: 1954 Columbia CL 590 1954
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz Goes To College Columbia CL 566 1954
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Brubeck Time Columbia CL 622 1955
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz: Red Hot And Cool Columbia CL 699 1955 1955
Chet Baker Quartet Plus... - The Newport Years Vol. 1 Philology (It) W 51 1989 1956
Dave Brubeck Quartet Live In 1956-57 Featuring Paul Desmond Jazz Band (E) EBCD 2102-2 1991
Dave Brubeck - Live From Basin Street Jazz Band (E) EB 402 1987
Dave Brubeck - Brubeck Plays Brubeck Columbia CL 878 1956
Dave Brubeck's Greatest Hits Columbia CL 2484 1966
Dave Brubeck And Jay & Kai - At Newport Columbia CL 932 1956
The Playboy Jazz All-Stars Playboy PB #1957 1957
Dave Brubeck, Leonard Bernstein - Dialogue For Jazz Combo & Orchestra: Rare Broadcast Performances Ozone 14 1970s
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz Impressions Of The U.S.A. Columbia CL 984 1957
Dave Brubeck Joker (It) SM 3804 1976 1957
Dave Brubeck Plays And Plays And Plays... Fantasy LP 3259 1958
Dave Brubeck Plays And Plays And Plays... Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-716-2 1992
Brubeck, Desmond, Van Kriedt - Re-Union Fantasy LP 3268 1958
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz Goes To Junior College Columbia CL 1034 1957
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Dave Digs Disney Columbia CL 1059 1957
The Playboy Jazz All-Stars Vol. 2 Playboy PB #1958 1958 1958
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - In Europe Columbia CL 1168 1958
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Newport 1958 Columbia CL 1249 1959
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz Impressions Of Eurasia Columbia CL 1251 1958 1959
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Gone With The Wind Columbia CL 1347 1959
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Gone With The Wind And Time Out Columbia CG 33666 1975
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out Columbia CL 1397 1959
Dave Brubeck, Iola Brubeck - The Real Ambassadors Columbia OL 5850 1962
Dave Brubeck, Iola Brubeck - The Real Ambassadors Legacy CK 57663 1994
Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond - St. Louis Blues Moon (It) MLP 028-1 1990
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - The Riddle Columbia CL 1454 1960
Dave Brubeck Quartet, Trio And Duo - Southern Scene Columbia CL 1439 1960 1960 (age 40)
The Dave Brubeck Quartet Featuring Jimmy Rushing - Brubeck & Rushing Columbia CL 1553 1960
Dave Brubeck - Summit Sessions Columbia C 30522 1971
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein Columbia CL 1466 1960
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz Impressions Of Japan Columbia CL 2212 1964
Brubeck A La Mode Fantasy LP 3301 1960
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Guest Star Carmen McRae - Tonight Only! Columbia CL 1609 1961 1961
Brubeck-Smith - Near-Myth Fantasy LP 3319 1961
Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Joe Morello, Gene Wright - I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 40 Curcio (It) GJ-40 1981
Dave Brubeck - The Quartet LRC Ltd. (J) 33C38-7681 1985
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Countdown Time In Outer Space Columbia CL 1775 1962
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Further Out Columbia CL 1690 1961
V.A. - The Giants Of Jazz Columbia CL 1970 1963
Gold & Fizdale Play Dave Brubeck's Jazz Ballet - Points On Jazz Columbia CL 1678 1961
V.A. - Music From The Soundtrack 'All Night Long' Fontana (E) TFL 5179 1962
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Brandenburg Gate: Revisited Columbia CL 1963 1963
Carmen McRae With Dave Brubeck - Take Five: Recorded Live At Basin Street East Columbia CL 2316 1965
V.A. - Singin' Till The Girls Come Home-Various Artists - Vocalists Columbia FC 38508 1983 1962
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Bossa Nova U.S.A. Columbia CL 1998 1963
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Angel Eyes Columbia CL 2348 1965
Dave Brubeck Quartet - My Favorite Things Columbia CL 2437 1966
V.A. - Jingle Bell Jazz Columbia CL 1893 1962
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Brubeck In Amsterdam Columbia CS 9897 1969 1963
The Dave Brubeck Quartet At Carnegie Hall Columbia CL 2036 1963
The Dave Brubeck Quartet At Carnegie Hall Columbia CL 2037 1963
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Changes Columbia CL 2127 1964 1964
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz Impressions Of New York Columbia CL 2275 1964
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz Impressions Of New York Columbia CK 46189
Dave Brubeck Quartet - In Concert 1964 Jazz Connoisseur (Israeli) JC 003 late 1970s
Dave Brubeck In Berlin CBS (G) 62578
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Zurich 1964: Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series 42 TCB (Swi) TCB 02422 2016 1965
The Canadian Concert Of Dave Brubeck Can-Am (Canadian) 1500
Dave Brubeck - Time In Columbia CL 2512 1966
The Dave Brubeck Quartet Plays Cole Porter - Anything Goes! Columbia CL 2602 1967 1966
Dave Brubeck - Jackpot Columbia CL 2712 1968 1967
Bravo! Brubeck! Columbia CL 2695 1967
Bravo! Brubeck! Legacy CK 65723 1998
Dave Brubeck - Buried Treasures Legacy CK 65777 1998
Dave Brubeck - Take Five Live Jazz Music Yesterday (It) JMY 1001-2 1990
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Live At The Kurhaus 1967: The Lost Recordings Fondamenta (F) FON-1704025 (CD) 2017
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - The Last Time We Saw Paris Columbia CS 9672 1968 1968
The Dave Brubeck Trio Featuring Gerry Mulligan - Compadres Columbia CS 9704 1968
The Dave Brubeck Trio Featuring Gerry Mulligan - Blues Roots Columbia CS 9749 1969 1969
Dave Brubeck - The Gates Of Justice Decca DL 710175 1970 (age 50)
Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan - Brubeck Mulligan Cincinnati Decca DL 710181
Dave Brubeck Trio And Gerry Mulligan - Live At The Berlin Philharmonie CBS (Eu) S 67261 1972
Dave Brubeck Trio And Gerry Mulligan - Live At The Berlin Philharmonie Legacy C2K 64820 1995? 1971
The Dave Brubeck Quartet Featuring Gerry Mulligan - The Last Set At Newport Atlantic SD 1607 1972
Dave Brubeck - Truth Is Fallen Atlantic SD 1606 1971 1972
Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, Paul Desmond - We're All Together Again For The First Time Atlantic SD 1641 1973 1973
Dave Brubeck - All The Things We Are Atlantic SD 1684 1976
Dave Brubeck - Two Generations Of Brubeck Atlantic SD 1645 1973
Dave Brubeck, New Heavenly Blue - Blue Rondo A La Turk / Three To Get Ready Atlantic 45-3015 1974
Dave Brubeck - Brother, The Great Spirit Made Us All Atlantic SD 1660 1974 1975
Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond - 1975 - The Duets A&M/Horizon SP-703 1976
Dave Brubeck - 25th Anniversary Reunion A&M/Horizon SP-714 1977
The New Brubeck Quartet - Live At Montreux Tomato TOM-7018 1978 1978
Dave Brubeck - A Cut Above Direct-to-Disk Labs DD 106 1979
Dave Brubeck - Back Home Concord Jazz CJ-103 1979 1980 (age 60)
Dave Brubeck - Tritonis Concord Jazz CJ-129 1980 1981
Dave Brubeck - Paper Moon Concord Jazz CJ-178 1982 1982
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Live At Montreux 1982 CMA Jazz CM 15015 1995
Dave Brubeck - Concord On A Summer Night Concord Jazz CJ-198 1982
Aurex Jazz Festival '82 - The Dave Brubeck Quartet Eastworld (J) EWJ-80239
Aurex Jazz Festival '82 - Live Special Eastworld (J) EWJ-80255 1983 1984
Dave Brubeck - For Iola Concord Jazz CJ-259 1985 1985
Dave Brubeck - Reflections Concord Jazz CJ-299 1986 1986
Dave Brubeck - Blue Rondo Concord Jazz CJ-317 1987 1987
Dave Brubeck - New Wine MusicMasters 01612-65051-2
Dave Brubeck - Moscow Night Concord Jazz CJ-353 1988
Dave Brubeck - Moscow Night Concord Jazz CCD-4353 1988 1988
Dave Brubeck - Quiet As The Moon MusicMasters 01612-65067-2 1991 (age 71)
Dave Brubeck - Once When I Was Very Young MusicMasters 01612-65083-2 1993
Dave Brubeck - Trio Brubeck MusicMasters 01612-65102-2
Dave Brubeck - Late Night Brubeck: Live From The Blue Note Telarc CD-83345
Dave Brubeck - Nightshift: Live At The Blue Note Telarc CD-83351 1994
Dave Brubeck - Just You, Just Me Telarc CD-83363
Dave Brubeck - Young Lions And Old Tigers Telarc CD-83349 1995
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Double Live From The USA And UK Telarc 2CD-83400
Dave Brubeck, Roland Hanna, Dick Hyman - Jazz Sonatas Angel CDC 7243 5 55061 2 2 1996
Dave Brubeck - To Hope! - A Celebration Telarc CD-80430
Dave Brubeck - In Their Own Sweet Way Telarc CD-83355
A Dave Brubeck Christmas Telarc CD-83410 1997
Dave Brubeck - So What's New Telarc CD-83434 1998
Dave Brubeck - 40th Anniversary Tour Of The UK Telarc CD-83440 2000 (age 80)
Dave Brubeck - One Alone Telarc CD-83510 2001
Dave Brubeck - The Crossing Telarc CD-83520