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... Paul Desmond , Eugene " Senator " Wright , and Joe Morello play a central part . But Dave , and thus jazz history , was shaped by his family , the cow- boys on the ranch that was his home throughout his teenage years , the many ...
... Paul Desmond , Eugene " Senator " Wright , and Joe Morello play a central part . But Dave , and thus jazz history , was shaped by his family , the cow- boys on the ranch that was his home throughout his teenage years , the many ...
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... Paul Desmond . Marian McPartland helped greatly in assessing Dave Brubeck the piano player . Once the actual writing began , help came from a number of sources . I'd especially like to express my gratitude to that prolific writer Jim ...
... Paul Desmond . Marian McPartland helped greatly in assessing Dave Brubeck the piano player . Once the actual writing began , help came from a number of sources . I'd especially like to express my gratitude to that prolific writer Jim ...
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... Paul Desmond . Paul hasn't been given his due lately , either : he was one of the most astonishingly inventive and melodic impro- visers jazz has ever known , and the most lyrical . Dave is being seen in his full value as a composer and ...
... Paul Desmond . Paul hasn't been given his due lately , either : he was one of the most astonishingly inventive and melodic impro- visers jazz has ever known , and the most lyrical . Dave is being seen in his full value as a composer and ...
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... Paul Desmond . He was also to play an important part in the ground - breaking Octet of 1946 . There was an endless amount of great music to be heard in Stockton , Modesto , and Sacramento and even more in San Francisco and Oakland in ...
... Paul Desmond . He was also to play an important part in the ground - breaking Octet of 1946 . There was an endless amount of great music to be heard in Stockton , Modesto , and Sacramento and even more in San Francisco and Oakland in ...
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... Paul Desmond . This chance encounter , during which Paul was both amused and amazed by Dave's approach to harmony and poly- tonality , was to make a profound change in the lives and careers of both men a few years later . Time for War ...
... Paul Desmond . This chance encounter , during which Paul was both amused and amazed by Dave's approach to harmony and poly- tonality , was to make a profound change in the lives and careers of both men a few years later . Time for War ...
Contents
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Time at Turk and Hyde | 43 |
Time for the Big Time | 57 |
Time for the Rest of the World | 71 |
Time for Compatriots I | 83 |
Time for Family | 97 |
Time for Compatriots II | 113 |
Time to Expand Horizons | 126 |
Time for Reflection | 143 |
Discography | 165 |
Index | 175 |
Index of Works Mentioned | 181 |
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Page 50 - With that in mind, lola one day came up with an entirely new concept that quite incidentally revolutionized the old one-nighter, road-trip concept. She searched the list of colleges and universities in the World Almanac for every institution on the West Coast, and personally wrote to more than one hundred of them, suggesting the Brubeck Quartet as great entertainment for campus concerts, citing their recordings and reviews.
Page 50 - Quartet as great entertainment for campus concerts, citing their recordings and reviews. So successful did these events become that they spread nationwide and opened an entirely new avenue for expression and income for jazz groups everywhere. Before that, many bands had played college dances and fraternity parties, but very few concerts.
Page 38 - I'm going to bring Bill Smith in on clarinet because the guy at the Band Box said he will keep me on.' He said, 'No! It's my job!' He wouldn't let me take the job. He got furious. He said, 'I found this job; it's my job when I come back!
Page 67 - Brubeck praised Armstrong for his ability to transform some of the more trivial lyrics — those written for a laugh — into pathos or political commentary. The...
Page 28 - That meant our guys had to go right up the mountain at point-blank range and dump the oil and light it. That's where I think I was going. Some guys I never heard from again were in on that, where I would have been that day.
Page 17 - I was pretty sure I could hide the fact that I couldn't read a note. Everything went well. You had to take a string instrument, a brass instrument, or a reed instrument. And when you're learning these instruments, it's all the scales and stuff that even somebody like myself could slip by the teacher.
Page 99 - Connecticut, and then as Director of the New Center for Jazz and Popular Music and Associate Professor in Jazz Studies at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa.
Page 143 - Although Brubeck's influence on other players (especially through his experimentation with odd meters) is quite evident, it is rarely acknowledged, at least in jazz circles.