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Dave Brubeck: Beyond 'Take Five'

Patrick Jarenwattananon

The late pianist and composer never tired of playing his greatest hits. But both before and after his seminal 1959 album Time Out, Brubeck took his craft to college kids, to churches, to musicals, to social-justice concerns and to the imaginations of countless new jazz fans.
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Dave Brubeck's Time Out: Why Is It So Great?

(Originally published in 2015). In Jailhouse Rock, Elvis plays an ex-con rube hoping to make it in the music business. He’s dragged to a swanky party,…
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Take Some Time Out to Celebrate 100 Years of Dave Brubeck with WRTI

It was 1959—a pivotal year for jazz as a whole, but for Dave Brubeck it was utterly life changing. After years of college tours he had a smash hit album,…