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... began , help came from a number of sources . I'd especially like to express my gratitude to that prolific writer Jim McKimmey for his early support in many ways , including his research of Dave's 1941 summer at Lake Tahoe . Editor ...
... began , help came from a number of sources . I'd especially like to express my gratitude to that prolific writer Jim McKimmey for his early support in many ways , including his research of Dave's 1941 summer at Lake Tahoe . Editor ...
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... began . Fred brought to bear his reserves of knowledge of music and of the age he and Dave had both lived through . Fred's sympathetic study of a great musician is the result . History will thank him for it . GENE LEES It's About Time ...
... began . Fred brought to bear his reserves of knowledge of music and of the age he and Dave had both lived through . Fred's sympathetic study of a great musician is the result . History will thank him for it . GENE LEES It's About Time ...
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... began in Reno , Nevada , and termi- nated on the east side of Honey Lake . The new terminus was soon named Amedee in honor of Amedee Deoau Moran , one of the owners of the N - C - O . Lewis Brubeck had previously purchased 151 acres at ...
... began in Reno , Nevada , and termi- nated on the east side of Honey Lake . The new terminus was soon named Amedee in honor of Amedee Deoau Moran , one of the owners of the N - C - O . Lewis Brubeck had previously purchased 151 acres at ...
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... began to wonder if it was all worth it . He bought a seventeen - hundred - acre cattle ranch down in Contra Costa County and sold all his Amedee holdings in late 1900. All surviving children made the move south , thus setting the scene ...
... began to wonder if it was all worth it . He bought a seventeen - hundred - acre cattle ranch down in Contra Costa County and sold all his Amedee holdings in late 1900. All surviving children made the move south , thus setting the scene ...
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... began for the Brubeck Quartet , it was Howard who usually did the tran- scribing of performances for print music and instruction books . As a composer , Howard is most noted for Dialogues for Jazz Combo and Orchestra , which Dave and ...
... began for the Brubeck Quartet , it was Howard who usually did the tran- scribing of performances for print music and instruction books . As a composer , Howard is most noted for Dialogues for Jazz Combo and Orchestra , which Dave and ...
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.