![]() The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Time heralded Brubeck’s music as the beginning of a new jazz era in 1954. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. (1920 - 2012) Dave Brubeck was the first jazz musician to grace the cover of Time magazine since the weekly featured Louis Armstrong in 1949. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. I'm Neal Conan in Washington.Ĭopyright © 2012 NPR. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. Dave Brubeck Quartet and composed that groups biggest hit, Take Five. Much more on his life and career later today on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED and at NPR Music. Paul Desmond was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer and proponent of cool jazz. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC, "BLUE RONDO A LA TURK")ĬONAN: The Dave Brubeck Quartet, "Blue Rondo a la Turk." Dave Brubeck died today at the age of 91. ![]() He wrote choral and symphonic works, but he will best be remembered for one album issued in 1959 that introduced two great hits: "Take Five" and this tune, "Blue Rondo a la Turk," where the pianist and composer traded solos with Paul Desmond on sax. He gets credit for introducing jazz on college campuses. Dave Brubeck toured his immensely popular quartet in black jazz clubs in the Deep South in the '50s and early '60s. Pianist and composer Dave Brubeck died in Norwalk, Connecticut this morning, one day shy of this 92nd birthday.
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