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 (bro͞o′bĕk), David Warren Known as "Dave." 1920-2012.
American jazz pianist and composer considered to be one of the foremost exponents of progressive jazz.
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Brubeck

(ˈbruːbɛk)
n
(Biography) Dave. 1920–2012, US modern jazz pianist and composer; formed his own quartet in 1951
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Bru•beck

(ˈbru bɛk)

n.
David Warren (Dave), born 1920, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
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Jazz dance: The Elisa Monte Dance Company teams up with Chris Brubeck's "Triple Play" for the collaboration "Elisa Monte Dance Does Brubeck" featuring the music of Dave Brubeck.
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This brand new show sees award winning vocalist and Radio 2 presenter Clare Teal and her excellent musicians effortlessly traverse a rich landscape of timeless and sparkling material, with standards from the grand masters of the Great merican Song Book, Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart to witty and urbane song stylists of the 1950s and 1960, Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh and Dave Brubeck, plus there's always a nod to more contemporary writers and originals too.
This year the festival is proud to have Darius Brubeck Quarter featuring Dave O'Higgins on sax headlining the Jazz Day on Saturday - a worldclass act with an undisputed heritage in jazz.
Among the performers at the three-day event which kicked off last night are British legend Chris Barber, Darius Brubeck, Digby Fairweather, Art Themen, Don Weller and Anita Wardell, as well the festival's artistic director Neil Yates.
So Dave Brubeck's son Darius said: "I'll play you a conservative jazz track John.
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It's actually the Portland Cello Project, and it plays everything from Bach to Brubeck to Beck, a repertoire of more than 800 pieces of music adapted for cello.
* The Harmony of Dave Brubeck, with CD, by Jack Reilly.
His presentation will include a discussion on the roots of jazz that produced great artists such as Scott Joplin, James Johnson, "Fats'' Waller, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Erroll Garner, Dave Brubeck and Dave McKenna, followed by performances of some of their greatest pieces.
After this, the 57-year-old is joined by two acoustic guitars, snare drum and a double bass to perform his own arrangements of some of his favourite music from Waller and Brubeck to Monti''s Czardas and more.
The Avakian portion of the archive contains correspondence and business papers documenting George Avakian's day-to-day work of signing and producing top recording artists such as Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Louis Armstrong, Bill Haley, and others.