DAVE BRUBECK: Ambassador of Cool From: Humanities | Date: November 1, 2006| Author: Hindley, Meredith | Copyright Superintendent of Documents Nov/Dec 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

From the opening bars of the Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Take Five," listeners are swept away by a swinging beat, a lilting piano line, and a sax that has been described as the perfect dry martini. Released in 1959. "Take Five" became the best selling jazz single of all time, ensuring Brubeck and his West Coast jazz sound a permanent place in the American soundtrack.

There is more to Brubeck, however, than the essence of cool in a melody. "The Times of Dave Brubeck," a new traveling exhibi...

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	The Times Of Brubeck's Life The Washington Post ; IN THE mid-'50s, pianist and composer Dave Brubeck somehow became the symbol of American jazz, at least for the previously untapped collegiate crowd that he was cannily marketed to. Not quite ready for be-bop, this audience proved receptive to Brubeck's blending of European classical harmony and
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