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Dave Brubeck


While archiving my LP's to hardrive I re-discovered "Dave Brubeck". It was like running into a very old friend. He was on a 2 LP set titled "Dave Brubeck's All Time Greatest Hits". This was his quartet with Paul Desmond, on sax; Joe Morello, on drums; Eugene Wright, on base, and of course, Dave Brubeck on piano.

The music was as comfortable as an old pair of slippers, just right for listening and relaxing. Although "Take Five" was quite revolutionary when it came out on the LP "Time Out", it seems tame now. So many memories of beautiful days in the past flooded my memories as I listened, it was like a slide show of good times. I recall seeing Dave live at a free outdoor concert. It was at "Our Lady of The Snows Shrine", in front of the main shrine, on a golden, warm Fall afternoon. He was accompanied by the most beautiful modern dancers who did choreography to his music. That day was unforgettable.

One tip, if you plan on archiving your LP's to hardrive, make sure you have a spare belt before you start. Mine began slipping, but fortunately I had a spare.

Enjoy the music.
orpheus10

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orpheus10 OP
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Many have tried, but no one can hit that drum solo like Joe Morello.

We were both just beginning our adult lives at the same time, I was in the USAF when it came out.
orpheus10 OP
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In the jazz world, where the most talented and famous musicians were users and abusers of drugs, Dave Brubeck was always a dignified gentleman. When I saw him, he had on a dark suit and tie. While he looked the personification of a "dignified gentleman", my intimate knowledge of Mr. Brubeck as a "jazz giant", caused me to look upon him with the same reverence and awe, Catholics reserve for the Pope.
orpheus10 OP
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Rok2id, your astute knowledge of jazz has left me very little wiggle room to defend Dave Brubeck as a "giant of jazz". First, I based my statement primarily on Mr. Brubeck's longevity.

In regard to his music as compared to what most "jazz aficionado's" would consider the "hippest", there are other jazz artists who would rank higher than Dave Brubeck, but so many of them flashed across the sky like shooting stars, that only aficionado's like yourself even remember their names. If not too long ago, I had seen any one of the artists you might have in mind, I would regard them with the same awe and admiration, as I did Mr. Brubeck.
orpheus10 OP
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Just as my taste for what to have for lunch changes from one day to the next, so does my taste for what to hear change from one day to the next. Yesterday it was Dave Brubeck, today it's "Bobby Timmons". Since there are so few "jazz aficionado's" on the Gon, I see no reason to start a "Bobby Timmons" thread.

He was a great composer as well as an accomplished pianist. Recently I've been comparing different versions of great tunes he composed, such as "Moanin" which was made famous by Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, and "Dat Dere", which is a tune that's been done by artists from Ricki Lee Jones to Oscar Brown Jr.

I find it fascinating how the same tune done by different artists can evoke so many different emotions, and that's why jazz is endless. When there were more "jazz aficionado's" on the Gon, "newbie's" would discover artists they had never heard of before. Some of them e-mailed me in thanks for their new discoveries. Maybe you could chime in on Bobby Timmons, or post an interesting thread on the subject of jazz.
orpheus10 OP
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Onhwy61, if you think it's jazz, then it's jazz. While the music I brought into this discussion is "definitively" jazz, recently, music from other parts of the world that incorporates our jazz, and possibly our musicians, is more interesting than the music currently originating here, according to my taste.

In the past, all the way up to 1970 maybe, jazz was quite definitive. After that it began to evolve, until today when it's up to the evaluator of the music to determine whether or not it's "really jazz"; otherwise one could argue the point until time ends.
orpheus10 OP
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Rok2id, a jazz collection of the artists you have, would be incomplete without Bobby Timmons. He did a lot of work with Blakey, and I'm sure you have tunes composed by him that were done by other artists.
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