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Dave Brubeck

Community Honors Late Jazz Legend

AP | CHARLES J. GANS | Posted 05.13.2013 | Entertainment
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NEW YORK — A celebration of Dave Brubeck's life and music turned into an ode to joy as family, friends and fans paid tribute to the groundbreaki...

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A Jazz Classic Gets A Mind-Blowing Update

Posted 04.16.2013 | Arts
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The late Dave Brubeck's classic jazz piece, 'Take Five,' is forever engrained in the brains of just about anyone who's ever heard it. With it's undeni...

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Dog Ears Music: Taxes and Other Misfortunes Playlist

The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 04.18.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Elliott Smith, Count Basie, Grant Green, Esquivel, Music, Red Nichols, Junior Parker, Gene Autry, Dave Brubeck, Jimmy McGriff & Groove Holmes, Charles Mingus, Illinois Jacquet and His Orchestra, John Coltrane & Miles Davis, Ryan Thomas Becker & Last Joke, Frank Sinatra (With Count Basie & the Orchestra & Quincy Jones), Jimmy Scott, Burt Bacharach, Quincy Jones, Tony Bennett, Johnny Cash, Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton, Danielle Evin, Barrett Strong, Dave House, Thad Jones, mp3s, Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks, Champion Jack Dupree, Phil Ramone, Eddie Condon, Eddie Cantor, Sophie Tucker, Ray Charles, Jimi Hendrix, Dog Ears, Entertainment News
The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

This week our playlist includes music by John Coltrane & Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, Charles Mingus, Sophie Tucker, and more.

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Dog Ears Music: The Gifting List

The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 02.13.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Eugene Ormandy, K?Naan, Little Willie John, Everest, Tinariwen, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Danielle Evin, Ravi Shankar, The Impressions, Music, Frankie Miller, Oliver Nelson, mp3s, The Pied Pipers, Can, Isaac Stern & the Philadelphia Orchestra, Dave Brubeck, A.R. & Machines, Phil Ramone, Charles Mingus, Fats Waller, Billy May and His Orchestra, King Curtis & Jimmy Forrest, Hank Williams, Ella Fitzgerald & Nelson Riddle, Dog Ears, Loretta Lynn, Entertainment News
The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

This week our playlist includes music by Dave Brubeck, Everest, Ravi Shankar, Tinariwen, Fats Waller, Frankie Miller and more.

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The Dave Brubeck Quartet Changed My Life (and I Didn't Know It)

Doug Bradley | Posted 02.09.2013 | Fifty
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Doug Bradley

"Time Out," it said in big bold letters under the band's name. Even the cover was intoxicating -- strange shapes and bright colors and bizarre objects that you couldn't quite figure out. I looked at Steve, a question on my face.

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Jazz Legend Dave Brubeck: Composition As Prayer

Religion News Service | David E. Anderson | Posted 12.07.2012 | Religion
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(RNS) "I approached the composition as a prayer," jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck said of his "To Hope! A Celebration," a contemporary setting ...

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Jazz Legend Dave Brubeck Receives Posthumous Grammy Nod

AP | By CHARLES J. GANS | Posted 12.06.2012 | Entertainment
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NEW YORK -- Dave Brubeck has received a posthumous Grammy Award nomination in the best instrumental composition category for a symphonic piece inspire...

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Jazz Legend Dave Brubeck Dies

AP | PAT EATON-ROBB | Posted 02.04.2013 | Arts
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such as "Take Five" caught listeners' ears with exot...

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Jazzin' Around: Conversations With David Sanborn, Lee Ritenour and Kurt Elling

Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.05.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: George Duke, Bob James, Christopher Parkening, Guys and Dolls, Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, Hans Christian Anderson, Burt Bacharach, B.B. King, Donald Fagen, Harry Warren, Al Dubin, Don Grolnick, Barry Mann, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Cannonball Adderly, Eric Clapton, Don Was, Doc Pomus, David Sanborn, David GIlmour, Bob Ezrin, Carly Simon, Kurt Elling, David Bowie, Hal David, Carole King, Cynthia Weil, Fourplay, Bill Evans, Gerry Goffin, David Letterman, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

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Notes on Jazz Third Annual 4th of July Living Legends of Jazz Celebration

Ralph A. Miriello | Posted 09.01.2012 | Arts
Read More: Fourth of July Annual Living Legends of Jazz, Jazz Legends, Jazz Performers Over Seventy, Jazz Music, Donald Byrd, Pharoah Sanders, Buzzy Pizzarelli, John McLaughlin, Sonny Rollins, Bobby Hutcherson, Nancy Wilson, HArold Mabern, Mark Murphy, Charlie Haden, Charles McPherson, Jimmy Cobb, Herbie Hancock, Frank Wess, Dave Brubeck, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Joa Gilberto, Buddy DeFranco, Living Jazz Legends, Arts News
Ralph A. Miriello

This is the third annual compilation, and with each year we gain some new members and sadly lose some old friends. The list is a celebration of those who have, for so long, graced us with their talents, their creativity and their love of the music.

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Dog Ears Music: Born in December Playlist

The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 02.01.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Annie Lennox (Eurhythmics), Earl ?€œFatha? Hines, David Gates (Bread), Paul Westerberg, Maria Callas, Danielle Evin, Keith Richards (the Rolling Stones), Big Mama Thornton, Music, Kim Weston, Harry Chapin, Pablo Casals, Elliott Carter (With Pacifica Quartet), Gregg Allman (the Allman Brothers Band), mp3s, Chet Baker, Brenda Lee, Dave Brubeck, Jimmy Smith, Phil Ramone, Christina Aguilera, Frank Sinatra, Rachel Portman, Jon Brion, Dog Ears, Entertainment News
The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

Today we review music by Frank Sinatra, Keith Richards, Christina Aguilera, Harry Chapin, Annie Lennox and others.

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Brubeck's Signature, Signed with Time

Network Awesome | Posted 12.11.2011 | Arts
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Network Awesome

While we often think of jazz in terms of syncopated rhythms and lush dissonance, pianist Dave Brubeck was one of the first to help shape that style of experimentation.

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Boardwalk Empires, Mockingbirds, Concertos & Rocket Science: Conversations with The Jayhawks, Bela Fleck and Vince Giordano

Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.22.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Diane Lane, Howard Levy, Ginger Baker, Martin Scorsese, Garrison Keillor, The Aviator, Mamie Smith, Dick Hyman, Phish, Gary Louris, Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, The Byrds, Roy Wooten, A Prairie Home Companion, Martha Wainwright, Ghost World, Bela Fleck, Peter Gelb, Edgar Meyer, Michael Penn, Earl Scruggs, Evelyn Glennie, Zakir Hussain, Rufus Wainwright, Bela Bartok, The Beverly Hillbillies, Captain Kirk, Zelig, Lewis Rusell, Mark Olson, Leon Redbone, Jane Green, Aztec Two-Step, Steve Buscemi, The New Grass Revival, Sam Bush, Woody Allen, Neil Young, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Miles Davis, Star Trek, Jeff Coffin, John Coltrane, The Cotton Club, Louis Armstrong, Buffalo Springfield, Jerry Douglas, Richard Gere, Mark Twain, Charlie Parker, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Ray Bradbury, Dve Matthews, Randall Poster, Nellie Mckay, Victor Wooten, The Jayhawks, Joshua Bell, Boradwalk Empire, Kathy Brier, Catherine Russell, Sophie Tucker, Leonardo Dicaprio, Saturday Night Live, Richard Thompson, Mark O'Connor, Stewart Lerman, Johnwilliams, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

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Bruce Ricker/Jazz Foundation of America -- Keeping the Spirit Alive

Regina Weinreich | Posted 07.22.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Danny Glover, Tony Bennett, Big Joe Turner, Laurence Fishburne, Count Basie, Ronnie Spector, Charlotte Zwerin, Christian McBride, Thelonius Monk, Hal Willner. Dr. John, Clint Eastwood, Macy Gray, Wendy Atlas Oxenhorn, Robert Bell From Kool & the Gang, Dave Brubeck, Seymour Krim, Johnny Mercer, Jay McShann, Michael Imperioli, Melvin Van Peeples, Bruce Ricker, Lou Reed, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

Jazz lost one of its own last week, with the death of Bruce Ricker. Not a player per se, Ricker, a lawyer with a passion for jazz assembled Jay McShan...

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1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: The Greatest Generation, The Tonight Show, The Roaring Twenties, Hula-Hoops, Sarah Vaughn, Zeitgeist, The Millennial Generation, Marilyn Monroe, Lawrence Olivier, Fred Kaplan, Brando, Dave Brubeck, Guggenheim Museum, Slate Magazine, On the Waterfront, Dinah Washington, Non-Objective Art, I Love Lucy, The Today Show, Bill Haley, Robert Heinlein, James Dean, 1959: The Year Everything Changed, The Silent Generation, Rockabilly, Paul Newman, Abstract Expressionism, Joe Barrett, Jaspar Johns, Chuck Berry, Vladimir Nabokov, Frisbee, Doctor Zhivago, Peanuts. Playboy Magazine, Charlotte's Web, Ingmar Bergman, Rock and Roll, Don't Ask Don't Telll, Jerry Mulligan, David Halberstam, Fats Domino, The Civil Rights Movement, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dizzy Gillespie, The Fifties, Rothko, Tolkein, Kind of Blue, Miles Davis, Jackson Pollack, Elvis, John Coltrane, Ayn Rand, Martin and Lewis, Modern Jazz, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lenny Bruce, Charlie Parker, The Me Generation, Jack Kerouac, Ella Fiztgerald, The Cold War, Kandinsky, Ray Bradbury, Micro Chip, Sputnik, Brown v. Board of Education, Audible.com, De Kooning, Little Rock, Gen-X, Pepsi Cola, Arthur C. Clarke, Duck-and-Cover, Catcher in the Rye, James Bond, Mort Sahl, The Great Depression, Asimov, Fellini, Books News
Tom Alderman

Fred Kaplan's enlivening 1959: The Year Everything Changed, argues that the '50s -- a decade that saw the invention of the microchip and the creation of explosive art -- has been misunderstood in hindsight.

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Father Time: Dave Brubeck Plays the Blue Note

Tony Sachs | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
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Tony Sachs

Going to see Brubeck's late show at the Blue Note on a Saturday night feels, in 2010, almost as improbable as going to the ballpark to catch Mickey Mantle, or attending a lecture by Alexander Hamilton.

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Hilary Kole Deserves to Be Your Valentine

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Birdland, Hilary Kole, Bobby Troup, John Hart, Paul McCartney, Oscar Hammerstein, Alan Jay Lerner, Oscar Peterson, Jack King, Paul Gill, Peggy Lee, Jane Monheit, "Haunted Heart" D, Dorothy Parker, John Lennon, Tedd Firth, Jerome Kern, Burton Lane, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, Mark McLean, Ella Fitzgerald, Valentine's Day, John Pizzarelli, New York News
David Finkle

Everyone should want to listen to and look at Hilary Kole in an understated black cocktail dress and high-heeled gold-strap shoes and tresses flowing past her shoulders.

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HuffPost Reviews: Alice In Chains, Rosanne Cash, Kiss, and more, plus a Brandi Carlile Interview, and This Week's New Albums

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Peter Gabriel, Black Orpheus, Sarah Cracknell, Linda Ronstadt, Bola Sete, Indigo Girls, Roxy Music, The Eagles, Andrew Gold, Neil Young, Sade, Stan Getz, Alice in Chains, Brandi Carlile, Miles Davis, Cal Tjader, J.D. Souther, Peanuts, Dave Brubeck, Stephen Stills, Lisa Germano, Rosanne Cash, Elton John, Dan Fogelberg, Elvis Costello, Meshell Ndegeocello, Kiss, Joan Armatrading, Jaco Pastorius, Robert Fripp, Wal-Mart, Crosby Stills & Nash, Charles Schulz, Vince Guaraldi, Wilco, Mary Travers, Jeff Tweedy, Robbie Robertson, Erroll Garner, Charlie Brown, Astrid Gilberto, Charlie Mingus, Karla Bonoff, Entertainment News, Joni Mitchell, Rufus Wainwright, Amy Ray, Sam's Club, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

With Layne Staley's death, Alice In Chains was all but done. But fourteen years later, here we are with something that sounds a lot like what the group would have had they returned to the studio a couple years later.

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Thank God It's Thursday: Miles Davis, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Charles Mingus, Tito Puente and Babatunde Olatunji

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Babatunde Olatunji, Eugene Wright, Carlos Santana, Legacy Edition, Gil Evans, Paul Desmond, Horace Parlan, Joan Baez, Miles Davis, Michael Cuscuna, Mickey Hart, John Coltrane, Fidel Castro, Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus, Gunther Schuller, Carnegie Hall, Dannie Richmond, Ornette Coleman, The King of Mambo, Manuel De Falla, Tito Puente, Sony, Jazz, Entertainment News, Duke Ellington, El Rey, Joaquín Rodrigo, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Joni Mitchell, Frank Sinatra, Joe Morello, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Mostly celebrating jazz's 1959 frontier, six classic albums have been re-imagined as Legacy Editions, expanding each of the originals by adding an extra disc.

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Dog Ears Music: Holiday Playlist

The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Amos Milburn, D.J. Santa & the Dance Squad, Dave Matthews, Run-Dmc, The Beach Boys, Joe Sample, Neil Sedaka, Snow Patrol, Dolly Parton, Otis Redding, Casey Shea, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Horace Andy, Pedro the Lion, The Who, Dave Brubeck, The Klezmonauts, The Shootist, Jack Benny, Dinah Washington, Amalia De Granada, Laura Nyro, Matisyahu, Kurtis Blow, Chris Brown, St. Petersburg & Valery Gergiev, Ron Sexsmith, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, Itzhak Perlman, Kodo & Tan Dun, Keith Richards, Elvis Presley, Maria McKee, Mandy Patinkin, Macy Gray, mp3s, Leonard Cohen, The Trammps, Joan Osborne, Christmas Symphonic Players, Jack Johnson, Phil Ramone, Justin Timberlake, Frank Sinatra, Remy Zero, Eddy Arnold, Danny Elfman, Mickey Katz, Orchestra of the Kirov Opera, The Ramones, Steve Earle, Neil Young, Music, Iain Archer, Aretha Franklin, Spike Jones, Jane Siberry, The Long Winters, Tony Bennett, The New 2 Live Crew, 2 Live Jews, Yo-Yo Ma, Bob Marley, Mahalia Jackson, Louis Armstrong & the Commanders, Mary J. Blige, Barbra Streisand, Tim Finn, Danielle Evin, José Feliciano, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Richard Swift, Harry James, The Raveonettes, Yoshida Brothers, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Alison Krauss & Natalie MacMaster, Astrud Gilberto, Adam Sandler, Snoop Dogg, Woody Herman, Dog Ears, Marvin Gaye, Holiday Season Commentary, Music and Religion, Entertainment News
The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

A comprehensive set of holiday music recommendations from Dog Ears Music, including Otis Redding, Spike Jones, The Klezmonauts, Keith Richards, Run-DMC, Dolly Parton, The Beach Boys, and many more.

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Meltdown: The Year Jazz Threw Out the Rules

Matthew Kohut | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Charlie Haden, John Coltrane, Jazz, Jack Kerouac, Dave Brubeck, Arts, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Music, Miles Davis, Culture, Entertainment News
Matthew Kohut

How does a music festival remain edgy and relevant? The British fest Meltdown 09 made news recently by tapping Ornette Coleman as director of this year's event.

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