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He's a guy who defined music during its transition from clubs to homes in the Hi-Fi era, a real icon of imagination, musicality, innovation, and style. Plus, he was married for 70 years!
I have a lot to write about him, but not now. :(
I pulled out the Decca double LP, Brubeck's :An Oratorio for Modern Times, circa 1968. I can still sing most of it line for line. It was a big risk for Brubeck, but it meant a lot to him, and I sure devoured it through repeated playings, plus seeing it performed "live" on Easter Sunday 1969 on B/W TV.
Sometimes when I'm in my cups, I'll sing the entire third side.
Grabbed the Time Out SACD which is always in my recently played stack and gave it a spin. Timeless. Though Dave is gone, we'll have the music forever. :)
My LP is long since worn out.
Wow - surely looks interestingQuote:
Originally Posted by Titanium Dome
The Light in the Wilderness: An Oratorio for Today
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Its unavailable at the moment, but I did buy copies of his Choral work at the National Cathedral and the Gates of Justice CD -
thanks for the heads up on that side of his work.
I tossed a half dozen of his CDs on my iphone for rotation this week ...
You got it right--I'm not sure how my post got muffed up. It was supposed to look like this:Quote:
Originally Posted by hjames
The Light In the Wilderness: An Oratorio for Today
but apparently I deleted the correct part and left the part I meant to edit. Ooops!
RIP Mr. Brubeck. A jazz innovator and icon. What a productive life he had!
I heard him live at Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh with Jerry Mulligan about a hundred years ago. Got him on now. Why do these old recordings sound so damn good?
Peggy Brubeck was my journalism teacher at Santa Barbara ..she rarely mentioned her husband , and then only to say "he's a musician" (somewhat dismissively)
Time out will always get a play on my system, reminiscences of seeing him perform take five live !