COMMENT: Dave Brubeck

The illustration of The Catholic Herald feature on the
death of Dave Brubeck caught interest.

It was the only article I read in the browse of headings of the newspaper.

The subject is riveting.

It is wonderful story and introduction to the
amazing jazz musician and composer.

www.bbc.co.uk/.../de0222a6-e1c4-403d-8b01-3f66d505061b

Darius Brubeck - The Jazz House interview. Dave Brubeck's son Darius talks about his father's iconic track "Take Five". Featured on BBC MUSIC SHOWCASE ...

BBC Radio Scotland

The Jazz House

Darius Brubeck - The Jazz House interview  
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00zmm97  

Dave Brubeck,

the jazz giant who inspired Clint

Dave Brubeck, 90 next month, talks to Adam Sweeting about starring
in Clint Eastwood's latest film.  

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“My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.”

Not even Clint Eastwood’s new film, Dave Brubeck – In His Own Sweet Way, can fully encompass Brubeck’s life and work despite being 90 minutes long and crammed with music, anecdotes and superb archive material. It’s still a great place to start. It traces Brubeck’s life from his upbringing on a northern Californian cattle ranch, via combat duty in the US Army in World War Two, to musical studies with the French composer Darius Milhaud, and thence to one of the mightiest careers in American music.

As Eastwood explains: “My early love of jazz coincided with Dave Brubeck appearing on the scene in the late 1940s and Fifties. This gave me the opportunity to see Dave in person. And, as jazz was developing as a great American art form, this provided an inspiration for artistic achievement as I began pursuing an acting career.” The film, he hopes, will “capture Dave, his life and music for the ages”.

Fr Stephen Wang on Dave Brubeck - jazz musician, Catholic convert who wrote a Mass setting!

Dave Brubeck at his home in Connecticut. He recorded his last album in 2011. Photo: CNS The jazz musician and composer Dave Brubeck died on Wednesday at the age of 91. Fr Stephen Wang writes in his blog Bridges and Tangents: 'His recordings were the first jazz I ever listened to, on a scratchy LP from my dad’s collection; and Paul Desmond’s lyrical playing on Take Five was one of the main reasons I took up alto sax as a teenager.'... Fr Stephen goes on to include a beautiful tribute to Brubeck and a link to a live studio version of Take Five - to read more see:  http://bridgesandtangents.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/dave-brubeck-rip/ In his next blog, Fr Stephen speaks about Brubeck's conversion to the Catholic faith:  For years, he asserted he was not a convert, saying: "to be a convert you needed to be something first" - Brubeck said he was “nothing” before he was welcomed into the Church. His Mass has been performed throughout the world, including in the former Soviet Union in 1997, and for Pope John Paul II in San Francisco during the pontiff’s 1987 pilgrimage to the United States. See: http://bridgesandtangents.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/and-dave-brubeck-was-a-catholic-convert-who-wrote-a-musical-setting-for-the-mass/