Unisphere dave brubeck biography
Unisphere, named after the famous sculpture at the World's Fair 🌎 in New York City, originally appeared on the album "Time Changes"....
Dave Brubeck was the first jazz musician to grace the cover of Time magazine since the weekly featured Louis Armstrong in 1949.
Writer Philip Clark, author of Brubeck's biography A Life in Time takes us on a moving journey through the life and music of this pioneering composer and.
Time heralded Brubeck’s music as the beginning of a new jazz era in 1954. Born and educated in California, Brubeck, who wanted to be a rancher but quickly succumbed to his interest in piano, graduated from College of the Pacific before serving in the Army where his musical skills flourished.
With a GI Bill he attended Mills College to study with classical composer Darius Milhaud, a proponent of polyrhythms and polytonality, who fired Brubeck’s imagination. While at Mills Brubeck formed an experimental octet that occasionally included alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, but it wasn’t until 1951 that Brubeck expanded his trio with drummer Joe Dodge and bassist Bob Bates to include the brilliant saxist,.
Brubeck found his audiences on college campuses where the quartet recorded their first successful album in 1953, Jazz at Oberlin. In 1956 drummer Joe More