Wednesday 5 December 2012

Take five, and remember a legend.

Jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck has  suffered a heart attack and died at 92. An American known as ''a living legend'' by the US Library of Congress and so highly thought of in France was  honoured and made an ''Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters'' in 1990
Tudor Powell says  Have been a follower of Mr Brubeck since my National Service days in The Army on the Rhine at RAF Laarbruch. I was at his concert in the Free trade Hall in Manchester, part of his first UK tour.1957ish.
Brubeck with Paul Desmond and, I think, Joe Morrello drums.The days of Trad vs Modern, East Coast vs West
BigBand vs Combos.I shall go and play an LP or two...."Jazz goes to College"

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