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mountain dog
Trad climber
over the hills and far away
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Possibly the very first music I ever remember consciously hearing. My old man played him at home and would take me to the bar with him and give me coins to play music on the juke box and play pinball. I always played Take Five an Blue Rondo ala Turk. It gave me a thrill to shake the hand of Dave and his bassist Jack Six in 1990.
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Delhi Dog
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Good Question...
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Love Brubeck.
My dad use to play at the Red Onion in Aspen BITD and had the opportunity to play with Brubeck a few times, as well as Oscar Peterson and several other greats.
Some of my earliest memories are of his music, so you can imagine my joy when my eldest daughter back about the time she was 13 came home from school and said, "Hey dad listen to what I just learned." and proceeded to play on her Sax an fine rendition of Take Five.
cool stuff
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Ghost
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A long way from where I started
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Watching them is too weird. They look like four partners in an accounting firm. Listening with eyes closed, then opening them and looking is bizarre.
But those guys were beyond good. It was cool to put them down back then, because they weren't black enough to be playing that music, but they played it as well as anybody.
And in terms of understanding rhythm and complex time signatures, maybe better than anybody.
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Fish Finder
Social climber
THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART
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Brubeck and Previn changed my musical appreciation views forever !
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pc
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Nice music but I generally can't listen to it. Just a personal taste thing but brings to mind some dude walking in manhattan waiting for the light to turn green before crossing the road. Why?
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edit. I know, because he's a west coaster...ba dump bump.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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I liked the smile on the base players face as he watched the drummer soloing...
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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One of the best at Desmond's 'Take Five'. I have several Brubeck CDs.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Randisi, Brubeck has always been beyond the peril.
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 3, 2012 - 01:48pm PT
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Make that, nonpareil. I was just back from Norway and jet lagged as sh#t.
JL
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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'nonpareil'
French origin
Unequalled, without parallel
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Relic
Social climber
Vancouver, BC
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The drum solo by Joe Morello at the end kicks ass.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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I played trumpet in Brubeck's first band. Paul Ryan played the piccolo with us.
Take Five, Take Ten, Take it to the limit one more time
My sister's boyfriend had a bunch of Brubeck records, but I really never got too far beyond Take Five.
He was competing with:
Theme from Peter Gunn from easier to understand if ya know what I mean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK-b5PLhrEI
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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zb,
I was in his platoon, Patton's 3rd Army (26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division) in WWII. He was in a fox hole with me until they yanked him to play a Red Cross Show.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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thankfully neither of you was injured.
From 1942-1944, Brubeck served in the Army during World War II. While in service, he led the Wolf Pack Band
“I am primarily a jazz composer. Most of us don’t even like the word jazz—Ellington didn’t like it, Stan Kenton didn’t like it. It’s really an extension of what Bach and Mozart did every day: improvise. Bach improvised every Sunday. Classical music shouldn’t abandon it. The composers most likely to live on from the 20th century are Ives, Copland, Bernstein, Ellington, Gershwin and all the people wise enough to use jazz, like they were.” – Dave Brubeck
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Dave Davis
Social climber
Seattle, WA
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Loved the Take-Five clip. Thanks Ed. I believe that was a Paul Desmond creation, right?
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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zb,
We both were awarded the Purple Heart for trench foot. I received two, one for "trench mouth".
After graduating in 1942, Brubeck was drafted into the army and served overseas in George Patton's Third Army. He was spared from service in the Battle of the Bulge when he volunteered to play piano at a Red Cross show; he was such a hit he was ordered to form a band.
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Sep 10, 2012 - 10:24pm PT
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I don't always listen to emasculated jazz, but when I do, I listen to Brubeck
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