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It's about Time: Dave Brubeck
by
Fred Hall
Including an extensive annotated discography, It's About Time is much more than an upbeat examination of the Brubeck phenomenon. It is also a penetrating view of the culture, the music, the musicians, the recording industry, the country, and the century that gave birth to jazz.
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
February 28th 1996
by University of Arkansas Press
(first published February 1996)
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The Dave Brubeck Quartet’s most successful single, Take Five (first recording July 1, 1959), evokes a feeling of sultry urban mystique and sophistication, so it was a bit surprising to read this musical genius spent his first seventeen years in rural northern California, working as a ranch hand. Despite the modest and somewhat isolated upbringing, Brubeck had the benefit of an extensive musical education from his mother, who had studied music theory at a university level, and insisted on all her...more
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