Tull’s leader thought using the 5/4 rhythm from Brubeck’s “Take Five” would be commercial suicide, but listeners proved him ...

See Dave Brubeck is interesting because his way of playing seems to have not very much to do with those other guys. But I think that was the appeal of his band, too, was that he had those two ...

After graduating from the University of the Pacific in 1942, Brubeck was drafted into the army and served overseas in George Patton's Third Army during the Battle of the Bulge. He played in a band ...

The communist regime had banned jazz music, a symbol of the West. So the arrival of the Dave Brubeck Quartet in Poland in 1958 was a very big deal. And one concert was not enough: local jazz fans, and ...

As BBC Radio 3 marked the centenary of Dave Brubeck’s birth with a broadcast concert from the Royal Festival Hall in 1962, Philip Clark profiles the innovative pianist, bandleader and composer ...

Dave Brubeck has been a musical pioneer, pushing beyond the traditional forms and standard techniques of American jazz. From the earliest days of Brubeck groups playing in San Francisco in the ...