Dave Brubeck - Further Information

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More about Brubeck, Desmond, and friends on the WWW

* recommended The Brubeck Institute is the obvious first port of call. This is the nearest Dave gets to an official website. It includes touring schedules, the latest NewsLetter, and much more.
* recommended Chris Brubeck's website is Brubeck Music It includes a little information about all the members of this very musical family.
* recommended The Pure Desmond web pages are highly recommended - obviously a lot of the material there includes references to Brubeck. For further reading, a bibliography of writings about Desmond and Brubeck is also available there.
* Brubeck recently appeared at the 2003 Newport Jazz Festival. There is a review by Scott Thompson at All About Jazz.
* A book biography of Brubeck was published in 1995, called It's About Time, by Fred Hall.
* The Perry Robinson web site also contains some Brubeck material. Perry was a sidesman in the Two Generations of Brubeck projects in the 1970s.
* UCI Jazz is a site covering many artists of the same period as Brubeck
* Brubeck is a member of the national support committee of the Native American Rights Fund.
* Grammy Insider gave Brubeck a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996.
* Some of Brubeck's early piano compositions, never before recorded, are now seeing the light of day on a new CD: John Salmon plays Dave Brubeck Piano Compositions.
* Another discography can be found at the UCI Jazz web entry for Brubeck.
* If you're looking for currently available Brubeck albums, try Sony's Music Vault for various CD titles from the Columbia/CBS period (roughly 1952-1968).
* Joe Morello made just a few recordings of his own after the classic DBQ ended in 1967/8. I have collected some information about those I know of.

Last updated: 22nd April 2005
malcolm@brubeck.info