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...times the pianist sounds like Oscar Peterson or early Dave Brubeck, as he lays down a firm base of intricate rhythms and unpredictable chord progressions. The right hand produces a steady, lilting melodic line that can flow from originals to classic themes-as in Chopin Prelude/ How Insensitive, which leads from an E minor prelude into a bossa nova favorite with a similar mood and melody. Pretty good for a 15-year-old. As Critic Leonard Feather puts it, by the time Craig Hundley is old enough to shave, he might well be the best-known pianist in jazz...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "Jazz: The Intimate Art" focuses on the trumpets of Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie, the flute of Charles Lloyd and the piano of Dave Brubeck...
...Turkey. Even with reduced scoring at the Chapel Hill performance, Brubeck's oratorio attested the composer's solid training as a serious musician, mostly under the eye of the French master Darius Milhaud at Mills College in Oakland, Calif. In twelve extensive, complex vocal movements, it traces a series of meditations on the universality of faith, with textual fragments drawn by Brubeck and his wife lola from the Gospels and Psalms. What little jazz there is in the score is far removed from the usual Brubeck sophistication: it is a more primitive, elemental sort, blended with folk overtones...
...most part, the piece glows with an inner, radiant simplicity in which elements of the contemporary harmonic and rhythmic language are mingled with sureness and originality-of a different scope certainly, but at least on an equal plane, with the kind of deeply thought-out stylishness that characterized Brubeck's jazz work at its best. "I am quitting at my peak," said Brubeck of the quartet's disbandment, and Light in the Wilderness bears this...
...Brubeck is already at work on two more oratorios as well as on a number of projects "around the house," including a Broadway musical and a string quartet. From all appearances, Serious Composer David Brubeck may, indeed, be as busy in the future as Jazzman Dave was in the past...