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Biography of Dave Brubeck
Name: Dave Brubeck
Birth Date: December 6, 1920
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Concord, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: pianist, composer, bandleader
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck (born 1920), who is considered the most widely acclaimed jazz musician of his time period, has been described as everything from mystical to methodical.According to Robert Rice of the New Yorker, the combo led by jazz pianist Dave Brubeck during the 1950s and 1960s was "the world's best-paid, most widely travelled, most highly publicized, and most popular small group." While Brubeck can be considered the world's most widely acclaimed musician of his period, he is also quite possibly its most criticized, having been described as everything from mystical to methodical. Stanley H. White wrote in Jazz Journal in 1958 that Brubeck's "ability to improvise fluently on almost any given theme, and his ability to swing with both drive and imagination make him a jazz musician of singular merit"; two years later Joe Goldberg declared in Jazz Review "that jazz is not [Brubeck's] natural form of expression, but he is …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…to most of the world with crash of European markets1941: Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and brought the United States into World War II1956: Soviet troops crushed uprisings in Hungary and Poland1968: Rash of airliner hijackings led to modern security measures at airports1975: Miller Lite beer hit party store shelves1984: Gas leak at Union Carbide factory in India killed 3,500 people1991: Most countries lifted economic sanctions against South Africa Further Reading booksFeather, Leonard, The Pleasures of Jazz, Horizon, 1976.Gelly, Dave, The Giants of Jazz, Schirmer Books, 1986.Lyons, Len, The Great Jazz Pianists: Speaking of Their Lives and Music, Morrow, 1983.Lyons, Len and Don Perlo, Jazz Portraits: The Lives and Music of the Jazz Masters, Morrow, 1989.periodicalsChristian Science Monitor, January 18, 1989; August 17, 1989.Down Beat, January 27, 1950; February 10, 1950; February 6, 1957; October, 1982; March, 1991.Jazz Journal, February 1958.Jazz Journal International, December 1988.Jazz Review, February 1960.Metronome, August 1955.New Yorker, June 3, 1961.New York Times, July 1, 1990. Stereo Review, February 1980; November 1986.Time, November 8, 1954.
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