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Dave Brubeck, 1920-, Pianist and Composer
A Biography and Bibliography
by Tim Sheehan
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Major Works
Musical Recordings - Musical Scores - Archival Collections - Videos - Writings
Ten Selected Musical Recordings
Arranged in chronological order
Dates listed are length of recording session
Jazz Goes to College. Campus Concert Recordings by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Dave Brubeck Quartet. Mar. 1954. Columbia.
One of many college concerts given by the Quartet.
Brubeck, Dave; Desmond, Paul; Morello, Joe. Time Out. Dave Brubeck Quartet. 25 June 1959 – 18 August 1959. Columbia.
Regarded as a classic jazz album. Huge jazz hit.
Brubeck, Howard; Bernstein, Leonard. Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein. Dave Brubeck Quartet and New York Philharmonic Orchestra. 30 January 1960 – 14 February 1960. Columbia.
Dave Brubeck Quartet performs with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Howard Brubeck’s “Dialogues fro Jazz Combo and Orchestra” and a few Bernstein songs, most from West Side Story are on this album.
Brubeck, Dave; Brubeck, Iola. The Real Ambassadors [an original music production]. Dave Brubeck, Louis Armstrong and his All-Stars, Carmen McRae, and Lambert, Hendricks and Ross. Sept.-Dec. 1961. Columbia.
Musical written by Brubeck with his wife Iola using racism as the theme. Includes performances by Louis Armstrong and his All-Stars, Carmen McRae, and Lambert, Hendricks and Ross.
Time Further Out. A Jazz Interpretation of the Joan Miró Painting, 1925. Dave Brubeck Quartet. 3 May 1961. Columbia.
Regarded as the sequel to “Time Out.”
The Last Time We Saw Paris. Dave Brubeck Quartet. 13 November 1967. Columbia.
Tracks taken from the Classic Quartet’s final tour in 1967.
Brubeck, Dave. The Light in the Wilderness [an oration for today]. Dave Brubeck, Erich Kunzel, William Justus, Gerre Hancock, Miami University A Cappella Singers, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
19 March 1968 – 20 March 1968. Decca.
Brubeck’s first religious concert composition.
Brubeck & Desmond 1975, the Duets. Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond. 10 June 1975 – 16 September 1975. A&M.
Reunion between Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond.
Moscow Nights. Dave Brubeck Quartet. March 1987. Concord Jazz.
First performance in the Soviet Union. Enthusiastic crowd credited with giving musicians inspiration to provide a great concert.
Brubeck, Dave. To Hope. A Celebration. Daisy Newman, soprano ; Tim Noble, William McGraw, baritones ; The Cincinnati May Festival Chorus ; Mt. Washington (Ohio) Presbyterian Church Handbell Choir ; The Dave Brubeck Quartet ; Erich Kunzel, conductor. 1980. Pastoral Arts Associates of North America .
Ten Selected Musical Scores
Brubeck, Dave. The Light in the Wilderness; an Oratorio.
Delaware Water Gap, Pa.: Shawnee Press, inc., 1968.
Brubeck, Dave. To Hope! : A Celebration : A Mass in the Revised Roman Ritual. Miami, FL: St. Francis Music; Warner Bros., 1995.
Brubeck, Dave; Brubeck, Howard. Dave Brubeck: The Genius Continues: Piano Solos. Miami: CCP/Belwin, 1986.
Brubeck, Dave; Brubeck, Howard. The Genius of Dave Brubeck : Piano Solos. Hialeah, FL: Columbia Pictures Publications, 1984.
Brubeck, Dave; Brubeck, Howard. Themes from Eurasia. Delaware Water Gap, PA: Shawnee Press, 1960.
Brubeck, Dave; Brubeck, Iola. The Gates of Justice :
A Cantata for Tenor and Baritone Soloists, Mixed Chorus, and Organ, (Supplementary String Bass and Percussion, Optional), or Brass and Percussion Ensemble (4 Horns, 3 Trumpets, 3 Trombones, Tuba, Rams Horn, and Percussion--3 or 4 Players) with Optional Keyboard Improvisation.
Delaware Water Gap, Penn.: St. Francis Music Co., 1970.
Brubeck, Dave; Brubeck, Iola; Brubeck, Howard. The Real Ambassadors. An original musical production. San Francisco: Derry Music Co., 1963.
Book by Iola Brubeck. Lyrics by Dave and Iola Brubeck. Music by Dave Brubeck. Piano-vocal score edited by Howard Brubeck.
Brubeck, Dave; Hughes, Langston. Dusk. Miami: Lawson-Gould, 1998.
Brubeck, Dave; Roed, Tom: At the Piano with Dave Brubeck : Intermediate Solos. Miami: CPP/Belwin , 1993.
Brubeck, Dave; Walloupe, Al; Roed, Tom; Brubeck, Iola. Dave’s Diary: A Collection of Dave Brubeck Piano Solos. Miami: Warner Bros., 1995.
Archival Collections
Dave Brubeck Collection. University of the Pacific. Stockton, CA.
Contains business and personal papers, posters, photographs, manuscript and printed scores, audio recordings and interviews, video and film. An online finding aid is available.
Dave Brubeck [Interview]. Major Figures in American Music, part of the Oral History, American Music collection. Yale University. New Haven, CT.
Selected Videos/DVDs
Ralph J. Gleason’s Jazz Casual - Dave Brubeck. 23 min. Rhino Home Video. 1999, 1961. DVD. VHS.
17 October 1961 performance of the Dave Brubeck Quartet on Ralph Gleason’s Jazz Casual, a half-hour TV show featuring jazz artists.
Brubeck Returns to Moscow. 2 hrs. Produced by Daniel Wilson. Lance Entertainment. 2002. DVD. VHS.
Dave Brubeck Quartet concert with the Russian National Orchestra. Performs jazz and Brubeck’s “Mass To Hope! A Celebration.”
Selected Writings of Dave Brubeck
Brubeck, Dave. “Classic Jazz Revival.” Down Beat 66(7) (July 1999): 66.
Reprint of 10 February 1950 article Brubeck wrote on development of jazz.
Brubeck, Dave. “Jazz’s Evolvement as an Art Form, Revisited.” Down Beat 68(2) (Feb 2001):32.
Brubeck reviews his 1949 article in Down Beat on this topic. States changes he would like to make to that article and the changes jazz has encountered since the article.
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