Oddball
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Author of some of the most complex and hypnotic music ever written.
Dave Brubeck dead; Jazz composer, pianist was 91 | Fox News
Fare thee well, Dave...Fare thee well.
Jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such as "Take Five" caught listeners' ears with exotic, challenging rhythms, has died. He was 91.
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Brubeck had a career that spanned almost all American jazz since World War II. He formed The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1951 and was the first modern jazz musician to be pictured on the cover of Time magazine on Nov. 8, 1954 and he helped define the swinging, smoky rhythms of 1950s and '60s club jazz.
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"When you start out with goals mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically you never exhaust that," Brubeck told The Associated Press in 1995. "I started doing that in the 1940s. It's still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements."
Dave Brubeck dead; Jazz composer, pianist was 91 | Fox News
Fare thee well, Dave...Fare thee well.
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