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Curt
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Posted - 12/06/2012 :  07:55:13 AM  Show Profile  Visit Curt's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such as "Take Five" caught listeners' ears with exotic, challenging rhythms, has died.

Dave Brebeck was 91 and I can tell you that from the moment I heard Take Five and Blue Rondo al la Turk, it was like I was listening to it all my life. I also really liked unsquare dance.
The time signature changes and the chord inversions tickled my rhythm sense and for a young kid with a little transistor radio the jazz channel in NYC was a real treasure and a escape from the du wa diddy crowd. It was music for the musicians more than anything else, because we knew why we liked it. And I'm sure every musician said to himself "how did he change the rules so much and keep the music melodic?" Just another person who was brave enough to change the world for the better.
Curt Spanburgh
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He that is walking with wise persons will become wise, but he that is having dealings with the stupid ones will fare badly.
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A nice short interview here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bkCHPFXDVk

Nice PBS Site
http://www.pbs.org/brubeck/talking/talkingWithDaveBrubeck.htm

Great music.
James
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We have lost so many of the innovators from my youth...does this mean that I am getting (cough) old? Brubeck was a brilliant artist. My dinner music playlist would be much poorer without him.
Mark M. Webster

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. - Elbert Hubbard
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Curt
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Posted - 12/07/2012 :  09:01:08 AM  Show Profile  Visit Curt's Homepage  Reply with Quote
We are old Mark. Like good wine, though.

There are good innovators today. It was hard for Brubeck's music to be accepted. Just now there are some groups like "Sound Garden" that puts different time sigs into the songs to make what would be boring , interesting.

We had Ginger Baker with "Do what you like" in Rock.

Jethro Tull had "Living in the past" in 5/4 as well.

So there were some folks who caught on and made a commercial success of it. There were others over the years as well, but not too many commercial success of the "off beat" music feel that goes against many folks "Musical senses".
As for me, I had Music Theory as a Major (5 credits) in High School.
I had an offer for a scholarship in 1969 to go to a music college but we were so broke living in a old house in N.J. on the truck road and my brother was in Vietnam so there was no chance. So I did oil changes and pumped gas while I gave lessons in a music store in Cliffside Park.

Great class though in school. The teacher would turn the piano around and play notes and chords and we had to write down in C cleff and G cleff on music paper what he played.
Now that's ear tuning!!!!!


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We have lost so many of the innovators from my youth...does this mean that I am getting (cough) old? Brubeck was a brilliant artist. My dinner music playlist would be much poorer without him.
Curt Spanburgh
Microsoft Certified Business Solution Specialist.
Dynamics CRM MVP
Contributing Editor, Windows IT Pro

He that is walking with wise persons will become wise, but he that is having dealings with the stupid ones will fare badly.
Proverbs 13:20


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