Dave Brubeck's Nocturnes

From: Piano Today | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: Salmon, John | Copyright information

Dave Brubeck's Nocturnes are small, lyrical piano pieces filled with melancholy, tenderness, nostalgia, and regret. All arise from Brubeck's personal experience, and have poetically evocative titles. Blue Lake Tahoe, a wistful ballad, recalls Lake Tahoe, where a 20-year-old Brubeck spent a summer playing a gig with his jazz band, and then revisited two years later for his honeymoon. Going to Sleep is a gentle lullaby composed to calm his grandson. Nostalgia de México is a minor-mode evocatio...

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