Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time

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Clark lives in Oxford with his wife, two children, two cats, and more recorded music than he can ever listen to. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin.

The first of his own encounters with Brubeck came in 1992, after a concert in Manchester, when he asked the artist to cast an eye over one of his own student compositions and received an encouraging response. But finding a convincing fit for Brubeck’s legacy, one that reconciles his mass popularity with his advanced musical technique, has proved largely elusive. Although I am not a musician and much of the technical discussion of Brubeck's music flew over my head, I enjoyed reading this book immensely.But because counterpoint was so important to the way he thought, we all latched on to that and it became important to us. Eventually, I even got to meet him and his wife when an ensemble I was in premiered some of his choral works. p>Read about how we’ll protect and use your data in our Privacy Notice.

I would have to seen more about Brubeck's life and his music without the technical terms this book took. Philip Clark's revealing study enables a deeper and more complete understanding of this artist and pioneer's life and work.

Chords retain their basic identities while spawning a spectrum of notes, now forced into unlikely alliances, that blend and clash unpredictably. Philip Clark has produced an excellent book about Dave Brubecks progressive career and although it is a bit technical at times to a non musician like myself, it is never boring. PH IL IP CL AR K is a music journalist who has written for many leading publications including The Wire , Gramophone , MOJO , Jazzwise , and The Spectator . By the dawn of the 1960s, when “Take Five”, a catchy little number in 5/4 time, was high in the pop charts, regularly requested on the BBC’s Sunday lunchtime radio show Two-Way Family Favourites, he was effectively the public face of modern jazz, even though his genial temperament and settled family life – he was married to the same woman for 70 years – ran contrary to what was generally seen as the idiom’s beatnik tendency. A narrative densely packed with info (and gossip, maybe) about many of the jazz musicians of the 1950-1976 era + to a lesser extent 1976-2012.