Word: brubecks
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...face is grey and his hands are speckled with age now. Heavy, stoop-shouldered, protected even from springtime by his muffler, he is a grandly Churchillian figure on the campus. His music is still spiced with youth and so are his interests: Jazz Pianist Dave Brubeck built such a deep rapport with him that he named his son Darius, and Milhaud occasionally shocks prissy listeners by saying that good jazz can steal his attention from dull classics any time. His youthful spirit echoes especially in his lively Provencal wit. Hoping to end an argument with him, a student once pleaded...
GEORGE BALANCHINE HARRY A. BATTEN HARRY BELAFONTE EZRA TAFT BENSON EDGAR BERGEN MILTON BERLE EUGENE R. BLACK EUGENE CARSON BLAKE ROGER BLOUGH RICHARD BOONE SPRUILLE BRADEN OMAR N. BRADLEY JOHN W. BRICKER CHARLES H. BROWER HERBERT BROWNELL JR. DAVE BRUBECK DON BUDGE MARY I. BUNTING ARLEIGH A. BURKE LEO BURNETT AUGUST A. BUSCH JR. JAMES F. BYRNES
...Freedom. However much the classicists have tried, the collision of jazz idiom and classical technique has been mainly the work of jazzmen. Dave Brubeck has been an ardent explorer of quiet waters, but the classic case of the Juilliard blues afflicts John Lewis, whose fascination with the baroque and the commedia dell' arte has led his Modern Jazz Quartet into music of great cerebration and even greater anemia. Lewis' music often seems too fragile even to be called jazz; but now a new group of jazz composers has arrived with the claim that they are uniquely "serious...
...Mind (RCA Victor) puts Mulligan in the company of Saxophonist Paul Desmond, who rarely swings at his regular employment as Dave Brubeck's commentator, but here is the match of Mulligan himself...
Most Negroes, says Negro Saxophonist Julian ("Cannonball") Adderley, "felt that swing had to be there for the jazz to be valid. They weren't much interested in the new West Coast music. They were convinced that Brubeck's music was not jazz." Result: few Negroes were involved in West Coast jazz. As its popularity increased, so did the resentment of Negro jazz leaders, who were getting fewer and fewer dates. "The irony of the thing is," says Stan Kenton. "that this group of musicians, who never had any problems before, all of a sudden were at odds...