Dave Brubeck’s Music
“Blue Rondo A La Turk” (Love the odd timing, the polyrhythms, and the switching of tempos at the bridge)
“Three to Get Ready” (Dig Joe Morrello’s marvelous brushwork here)
“The Duke” (An invigorating tribute to Ellington)
“The Crossing” (An amazing piece that is filled with polytonality)
For more comprehensive experience of Brubeck’s unorthodox jazz style, Time Signatures: A Career Retrospective is highly recommended. The box set featured fifty-nine tracks selected by Brubeck himself including Time Out masterpieces, a Charles Mingus-collaborated “Non-Sectarian Blues,” and the silky-smooth “Summer Song” with Louis Armstrong on vocal.
This is wonderful! Finally…a post just for Mr. Brubeck.
This man is truly versatile and there are too many albums to name… but every album is distinctive and pleasantly different.
Take 10! I give this guy the full score of excellence in his Jazzy style! Everything he walks past gets endrenched in his grandiose style! A sentimental piece is “One day my prince will come”… a bland fairytale name but has deep conotation within it’s content! EVERYONE should hear this guy… he is one of my favorites of all time!!!!
I know this music very well, from listening and playing, and let me tell you it is fabulous. His complex polyrhythms, and often unusual time signitures, make for such an interesting feel to the music that you can’t help but get pulled into his unique style.
I’m lovin’ it :)