Dave Brubeck Quartet - Calcutta Blues
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David Warren "Dave" Brubeck (December 6, 1920 - December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz. He wrote a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranged from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills. His music is known for employing unusual time signatures, and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, and tonalities.
His long-time musical partner, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, wrote the saxophone melody for the Dave Brubeck Quartet's best remembered piece, "Take Five", which is in 5/4 time and has endured as a jazz classic on one of the top-selling jazz albums, Time Out. Brubeck experimented with time signatures throughout his career, recording "Pick Up Sticks" in 6/4, "Unsquare Dance" in 7/4, "World's Fair" in 13/4, and "Blue Rondo à la Turk" in 9/8. He was also a respected composer of orchestral and sacred music, and wrote soundtracks for television such as Mr. Broadway and the animated miniseries This Is America, Charlie Brown.
Brubeck was born in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Concord, California, and grew up in Ione. His father, Peter Howard "Pete" Brubeck, was a cattle rancher, and his mother, Elizabeth (née Ivey), who had studied piano in England under Myra Hess and intended to become a concert pianist, taught piano for extra money. His father had Swiss ancestry (the family surname was originally "Brodbeck") and possibly Native American Modoc lineage, while his maternal grandparents were English and German. Brubeck originally did not intend to become a musician (his two older brothers, Henry and Howard, were already on that track), but took lessons from his mother. He could not read music during these early lessons, attributing this difficulty to poor eyesight, but "faked" his way through, well enough that this deficiency went mostly unnoticed.
In 1951, Brubeck damaged several neck vertebrae and his spinal cord while diving into the surf in Hawaii. He would later remark that the rescue workers who responded had described him as a "DOA" (dead on arrival). Brubeck recovered after a few months, but suffered with residual nerve pain in his hands for years after. The injury also influenced his playing style towards complex, blocky chords rather than speedy, high-dexterity, single-note runs.
In 1951, Brubeck damaged several neck vertebrae and his spinal cord while diving into the surf in Hawaii. He would later remark that the rescue workers who responded had described him as a "DOA" (dead on arrival). Brubeck recovered after a few months, but suffered with residual nerve pain in his hands for years after. The injury also influenced his playing style towards complex, blocky chords rather than speedy, high-dexterity, single-note runs.
Brubeck organized the Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1951, with Paul Desmond on alto saxophone. They took up a long residency at San Francisco's Black Hawk nightclub and gained great popularity touring college campuses, recording a series of albums with such titles as Jazz at Oberlin (1953), Jazz at the College of the Pacific (1953), and Brubeck's debut on Columbia Records, Jazz Goes to College (1954).
When Brubeck signed with Fantasy Records, he thought he had a half interest in the company and he worked as a sort of A & R man for the label, encouraging the Weiss brothers to sign other contemporary jazz performers, including Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker and Red Norvo. When he discovered that all he owned was a half interest in his own recording, he was more than willing to sign with another label, Columbia Records.
In 1954, he was featured on the cover of Time, the second jazz musician to be so honored (the first was Louis Armstrong on February 21, 1949). Brubeck personally found this accolade embarrassing, since he considered Duke Ellington more deserving of it and was convinced that he had been favored for being Caucasian. Ellington himself knocked on the door of Brubeck's hotel room to show him the cover and the only reaction Brubeck could give was, “It should have been you.”
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I'm 83 now and was a 19 year old jazz fan at Delhi University when the Dave Brubeck Quartet visited Delhi. Some of us were recruited by Len Maddox of the United States Information Service (now the American Center) to help organise a concert in the cast cricket grounds of the University. We were over the moon! Apart from the usual standards like St. Louis Blues, Calcutta Blues was one of the compositions played alongside Take Five, Blue Rondo A La Turk, Someday My Prince Will Come etc were featured.
The vivid memory of that night is still deeply etched in my memory apart from the thrill of actually being introduced to all four members of the quartet, Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright and, of course, Joe Morello.
Those are indeed wonderful memories to cherish, you are a lucky man. 🙂
@@Joonudschi Indeed, Juan!
Never tired of this beautiful piece of beautiful of music
Dave Brubeck
Mooie
Listening to the song in Calcutta.
xD
divanjali banerjee *inserts satisfied and content smiley*
So am I :3
:-)
Heard decades ago. Still love to hear it.
Really does remind me of Calcutta :P
'The city of joy ' blues :')
Brilliant!! Great share....with love from Calcutta (Kolkata).........
I wish there was a video of this performance.
This is my favorite DB tune. I wish there were videos of this performance.
Brilliant sound. Thanks for posting!
perla in mezzo a tanto romanticismo
love love love.
Such quality recording...!
Brilliant
Thanks a lot
muito bom
greeat song
top!
Nicolas Jaar - Mini Calcutta edit. Plz do listen. Lovely days from salt lake to park street
memories of shafi hakim 1965 ahmedabad
youtube kinda ruins the quality
Quite annoying
like your pointless comment
WHY is it annoying?
'The city of joy ' blues :')
'The city of joy ' blues :')