Since this suggestion is only suggestion Number 271 and with ample to pick from the TOP100 List, we have plenty to suggest, but not enough time, so it would be good restarting with some way cool mood. never the less a Jazz hero for the rock'n roll generation can never be underrated..
Let’s
hear it from the experts (WIKI): «David
Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American
jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one of the foremost exponents
of cool jazz.
He wrote a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The
Duke". Brubeck's style ranged from refined to bombastic, reflecting his
mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills. His
music is known for employing unusual time signatures, and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters,
and tonalities.
His long-time musical
partner, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond,
wrote the saxophone melody for the Dave Brubeck Quartet's, "Take Five",[1] which
is in 5/4 time and has endured as a jazz classic on one of the
top-selling jazz albums, Time Out.[2] Brubeck
experimented with time signatures throughout his career, recording "Pick
Up Sticks" in 6/4, "Unsquare Dance" in 7/4, "World's Fair" in 13/4, and
"Blue Rondo à la Turk" in 9/8. He
was also a composer of orchestral and sacred music and wrote soundtracks for
television, such as Mr. Broadway and the animated
miniseries This Is America, Charlie Brown.
In The Daily Telegraph, music journalist
Ivan Hewett wrote: "Brubeck didn't have the réclame of some jazz musicians
who lead tragic lives. He didn't do drugs or drink. What he had was endless
curiosity combined with stubbornness", adding "His work list is astonishing,
including oratorios, musicals and concertos, as well as hundreds of jazz
compositions. This quiet man of jazz was truly a marvel."[49]
In The Guardian, John Fordham said
"Brubeck's real achievement was to blend European compositional ideas,
very demanding rhythmic structures, jazz song-forms and improvisation in
expressive and accessible ways. His son Chris told The Guardian "when
I hear Chorale, it reminds me of the very best Aaron Copland,
something like Appalachian Spring. There's a sort of American honesty to it."[50] Robert Christgau dubbed Brubeck the "jazz hero of the rock and
roll generation".[51]
The Economist wrote: "Above all they found it hard
to believe that the most successful jazz in America was being played by a
family man, a laid-back Californian, modest, gentle and open, who would happily
have been a rancher all his days—except that he couldn't live without
performing, because the rhythm of jazz, under all his extrapolation and
exploration, was, he had discovered, the rhythm of his heart."[52]
On the night of Brubeck's death, right before
the intermission of a performance for Chick Corea and Gary Burton's
"Hot House", a tribute
was performed solely by Corea at Koerner Hall at
the Royal Conservatory of Music in
Toronto. The tune played was "Strange Meadow Lark", from Brubeck's
album Time Out.[53]
In the United States, May 4 is
informally observed as "Dave Brubeck Day". In the format most commonly used in the
U.S., May 4 is written "5/4," recalling the time signature of
"Take Five", Brubeck's best known recording.[57]»
So ladies and gents without
further a due the man behind the notes of Take Five,
in a 100 plus track selection
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