what a musician, love Dave Brubeck and his Quartet. Paul Desmond.. we are so fortunate to have these recordings available to play again and again. thanks and cheers!
Newport Jazz Festival greatly missed Mr. Brubeck's familiar musings this year. The festival committee made the amazing decision to allow student groups and college bands fill the performance spots. I was afforded the opportunity to play with my college band on the main stage on Sunday. I didn't realize that we were most likely taking the spot that would have been Mr. Brubeck and his band. Thank you Mr. Brubeck, and RIP.
Otros de los maestros de Cecil Taylor reparando raíces comunes entre compositores de géneros que algunos dividen sin tino ni tiento. Apacible manera de desmentirlo, en un sombrío atardecer en el que muerde la nostalgia. Gracias Te sean dadas allá donde te encuentres.
Saw Dave Brubeck at the Talk of the Town theater restaurant many years ago and it was a great moment in my otherwise miserable life. One of the great tunes was "Paradiddle Joe" with Joe Marrello on Drums, sadly have never been able to find a record of that song. There was an EP with a female singer on the reverse side. Amy one ever heard it?
How can your life be miserable when you have hundreds of pieces to listen to by the most masterful maestro of them all: Dave Brubeck. You will find that song on an album from the early 1960s, which I have, called "Dave Brubeck at Night."
Dave Brubeck is a treasure! Herd him in the Montreal Jazz Festival in July 2009. Simply luminous playing! And "the boys" were great, too. Played a full concert, as inspired and as charged emotionally, as anything! His son (the cellist) came out to play. Very interesting. Mr. Brubeck is an example for many a musician half his age of creativity, dedication to his art and high performing standards. It was a great evening!
This song is also called “There'll Be No Tomorrow” and has been recorded with Carmen McRae and separately by Dave instrumentally. Beautiful melody and a personal favorite of mine.
I meant that the original "Dziękuję" was from the 50s album, so it was an "early Brubeck". This recording indeed is a very late Brubeck's improvisation on a piece he wrote in the 50s... It is a full circle - an old master revisiting a piece from his younger days. I actually heard him play this in mid 90-s in Cambridge (Massachusetts) - very different, again. So that's what he did - he played it almost "as new" every time. Rest in peace, Dave, you can do as many takes as you wish.
Early Brubeck, actually - original piece is from 1958 album "Impressions of Eurasia" although Mr. Brubeck reprised it many times throughout his life. I heard him play it in mid-90s in Boston, and in 2009 in Montreal. The title is "Dziękuję" which is Polish for "Thank you"...
Top notch version of this on his interview album with Marian McPartland, great mix of jazz and classical. Love his latest solo albums on the Telarc label also. They have alot of feeling. Hear me now believe me later.
The version on "Two Generations of Brubeck" is another standout performance of this tune. (Also has what I think is the best ever version of "Forty Days".)
OK, perhaps I was a little rude and I apologise for that. I am a big Chopin fan and have been for many years. That's not to say I love all his work though. In fact his Nocturne no. 2 was the fisrt Chopin piece I played on the piano and I've grown to loathe it over the years. I just think he wrote a lot of brilliant stuff too, particularly the Studies, Scherzos and Ballades not to mention the Sonatas which I would never describe as mundane or saccharine IMHO. Please forgive my previous e-rage!
What do Dave Brubeck and Aretha Franklin have in common? They both adore Chopin. And both are great, talented, dear souls. Chopin's Ballades are some of the most powerful music ever written, though they are far too intense to listen to with others. They must be listened to alone, in silence.
Would not dare suggest that this rendition is preferable to that of the original recording. It's just that seeing Mr. Brubeck in performance carries great emotional impact, which makes it irreplaceable.
@MCalixte89 I read. Do you? I was replying to another know-it-all who kept insisting that this is a theme from Liszt's "Liebestraum". In my posts I said 2 things: (1) it is nota Liszt's theme. (2) it is a Brubeck's piece from the 50s album inspired by his tour of the Europe (incl. Eastern Europe, hence a title in Polish), and if Brubeck want to say that it is a tribute to Chopin, he is free to do so. I didn't say that Brubeck "quotes" or directly plays Chopin's music so you miss your point.
LOL, namgoz, the first time I heard "All by Myself" I almost choked. I love Eric Carmen (especially his beautiful harmonies in "Let's Pretend), but lifting that piece from Rachmaninoff and then making it so mundane -- well, it hurt!
@dorieappleton Does anyone know how is Mr. Brubeck now? Good health yet? I take my hat off, he belongs to this major league, the one that you find only in heaven.
This is definitely not Chopin, it is Dave Brubeck's original piece. The best version of this piece is from the album "Jazz Impressions of Eurasia" (1958). Don't know what Liszt has to do with it. The original title "Dziekuje" is Polish for "thank you" - which is the title in English as well. Besides, if Dave Brubeck intended this as a tribute to Chopin, who are you to gainsay him? It's his to dedicate to whoever he wants. Calling other people ignorant, diminishes you more than anyone...
Don't need to apologize to me, maybe to those you called "ignorant". Though the few first bars of Brubeck's "Dziekuje" sound a little like the beginning of Liszt's "Liebestraum", it is not enough to to make this "Liszt's music". Iif you have a source for yourt assertion that Brubeck used Liszt's music, please name it, I'd be curious to learn it. Short of that, it is just your word so I'd defer to Dave Brubeck: if he wants to say it's a tribute to Chopin - so be it.
To be politically correct, of course - PBS is celebrating the 300th anniversary of the invention of the piano not the Steinway. A minor point to us but a big deal to the pin-heads at PBS!
A CHopin tribute with Liszt music...very strange. It may be a Liszt tribute. The musci is Love's dream from Liszt!!! (Un tributo a Chopin con música de Liszt....muy extraño. Debería ser un Tributo a Liszt!!!
I do disagree with this, and I did not use the word ignorant, this is not what the word "inane" means - perhaps you should look it up. While your at it, look up the word "Pompous".
You obviously have no appreciation of the true beauty of Chopin's music. Have you actually listened to anything other than Nocturne No. 2? Why do you think great musicians such as Brubeck pay tribute to him. Stating that Chopin's music is "saccharine" is just inane.
At least as much as Chopin deserves a "Thank you" tribute, Brubeck deserves another.
what a musician, love Dave Brubeck and his Quartet. Paul Desmond.. we are so fortunate to have these recordings available to play again and again. thanks and cheers!
Thank You Dave - RIP,
thank You Frederick - RIP,
thanks for the immortal music
Dave what a king
i love you Dave Brubeck, since 1958!!!!!
Love this song. A haunting melody played exquisitely by a master.
Newport Jazz Festival greatly missed Mr. Brubeck's familiar musings this year. The festival committee made the amazing decision to allow student groups and college bands fill the performance spots. I was afforded the opportunity to play with my college band on the main stage on Sunday. I didn't realize that we were most likely taking the spot that would have been Mr. Brubeck and his band. Thank you Mr. Brubeck, and RIP.
Wit h Dave Brubeck classical always meets jazz in the most funky, spiritual of manners. Thank you Dave.
Otros de los maestros de Cecil Taylor reparando raíces comunes entre compositores de géneros que algunos dividen sin tino ni tiento. Apacible manera de desmentirlo, en un sombrío atardecer en el que muerde la nostalgia. Gracias Te sean dadas allá donde te encuentres.
I LOVE YOU DAVE BRUBECK!!!!!
Saw Dave Brubeck at the Talk of the Town theater restaurant many years ago and it was a great moment in my otherwise miserable life. One of the great tunes was "Paradiddle Joe" with Joe Marrello on Drums, sadly have never been able to find a record of that song. There was an EP with a female singer on the reverse side. Amy one ever heard it?
what a wonderful memory you must have of that performance!! truly precious...
I heard a recording of paradidle joe, with a singer! yes i love the enrgy in that song!
How can your life be miserable when you have hundreds of pieces to listen to by the most masterful maestro of them all: Dave Brubeck. You will find that song on an album from the early 1960s, which I have, called "Dave Brubeck at Night."
Dave Brubeck is a treasure! Herd him in the Montreal Jazz Festival in July 2009. Simply luminous playing! And "the boys" were great, too. Played a full concert, as inspired and as charged emotionally, as anything! His son (the cellist) came out to play. Very interesting.
Mr. Brubeck is an example for many a musician half his age of creativity, dedication to his art and high performing standards.
It was a great evening!
This song is also called “There'll Be No Tomorrow” and has been recorded with Carmen McRae and separately by Dave instrumentally. Beautiful melody and a personal favorite of mine.
Lovely piece.
wonderfull!!
Just super!...
I meant that the original "Dziękuję" was from the 50s album, so it was an "early Brubeck".
This recording indeed is a very late Brubeck's improvisation on a piece he wrote in the 50s... It is a full circle - an old master revisiting a piece from his younger days. I actually heard him play this in mid 90-s in Cambridge (Massachusetts) - very different, again. So that's what he did - he played it almost "as new" every time. Rest in peace, Dave, you can do as many takes as you wish.
He turning 90 yrs old Dec. 6th! He still goes on tours to this day!
this was a very special night
Early Brubeck, actually - original piece is from 1958 album "Impressions of Eurasia" although Mr. Brubeck reprised it many times throughout his life. I heard him play it in mid-90s in Boston, and in 2009 in Montreal. The title is "Dziękuję" which is Polish for "Thank you"...
NotAgain90
Cheers Dave
No, Drukk8, i WAS in fact referring to his little hermaphrodite SISTER, the one who produced the silent version of Finnegans Wake.
MrLeefan...Dave Brubeck is alive and well in California. He will be celebrating his 90th birthday in December 2010.
Top notch version of this on his interview album with Marian McPartland, great mix of jazz and classical. Love his latest solo albums on the Telarc label also. They have alot of feeling. Hear me now believe me later.
The version on "Two Generations of Brubeck" is another standout performance of this tune. (Also has what I think is the best ever version of "Forty Days".)
Brubeck was 87 when he played that. I saw him in Wigan, UK, with his Quartet, when he was 84; he really swung. He also played "Dziekuje".
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BRAVO!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!
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Bruback e o musico do seculo
OK, perhaps I was a little rude and I apologise for that. I am a big Chopin fan and have been for many years. That's not to say I love all his work though. In fact his Nocturne no. 2 was the fisrt Chopin piece I played on the piano and I've grown to loathe it over the years. I just think he wrote a lot of brilliant stuff too, particularly the Studies, Scherzos and Ballades not to mention the Sonatas which I would never describe as mundane or saccharine IMHO. Please forgive my previous e-rage!
What do Dave Brubeck and Aretha Franklin have in common? They both adore Chopin. And both are great, talented, dear souls.
Chopin's Ballades are some of the most powerful music ever written, though they are far too intense to listen to with others. They must be listened to alone, in silence.
Would not dare suggest that this rendition is preferable to that of the original recording. It's just that seeing Mr. Brubeck in performance carries great emotional impact, which makes it irreplaceable.
He went to Rochester, NY? I live there, I should've been there lol
@MCalixte89 I read. Do you? I was replying to another know-it-all who kept insisting that this is a theme from Liszt's "Liebestraum". In my posts I said 2 things: (1) it is nota Liszt's theme. (2) it is a Brubeck's piece from the 50s album inspired by his tour of the Europe (incl. Eastern Europe, hence a title in Polish), and if Brubeck want to say that it is a tribute to Chopin, he is free to do so. I didn't say that Brubeck "quotes" or directly plays Chopin's music so you miss your point.
LOL, namgoz, the first time I heard "All by Myself" I almost choked. I love Eric Carmen (especially his beautiful harmonies in "Let's Pretend), but lifting that piece from Rachmaninoff and then making it so mundane -- well, it hurt!
@dorieappleton
Does anyone know how is Mr. Brubeck now? Good health yet?
I take my hat off, he belongs to this major league, the one that you find only in heaven.
R.I.P.
Excuse me, and thank you for your information, but the main theme is "Love`s dream", from Liszt.
Liszt took a lot from Chopin (they knew each other well and fair) so it comes as no surprise.
Would this Flip George Sand's Skirt ?
And Christ, he was so friggin cute!
Esto es el Sueño de Amor de Liszt!!!
This is definitely not Chopin, it is Dave Brubeck's original piece. The best version of this piece is from the album "Jazz Impressions of Eurasia" (1958). Don't know what Liszt has to do with it. The original title "Dziekuje" is Polish for "thank you" - which is the title in English as well. Besides, if Dave Brubeck intended this as a tribute to Chopin, who are you to gainsay him? It's his to dedicate to whoever he wants. Calling other people ignorant, diminishes you more than anyone...
shut up and enjoy the music! this is SUCH a great song! :)
Don't need to apologize to me, maybe to those you called "ignorant". Though the few first bars of Brubeck's "Dziekuje" sound a little like the beginning of Liszt's "Liebestraum", it is not enough to to make this "Liszt's music". Iif you have a source for yourt assertion that Brubeck used Liszt's music, please name it, I'd be curious to learn it. Short of that, it is just your word so I'd defer to Dave Brubeck: if he wants to say it's a tribute to Chopin - so be it.
The beginning deeply deeply resembles the Brazilian like by Michel Petricianni.
Fryderyk Chopin.
brubeck,80 anos e joao martins,70 anos oct,2-2009 Lincoln Center
Vamos lá?Eu vou...
Gildo
The beginning does sound like a Chopin melody, although I'm not very familiar with Chopin's oeuvre.
So nice.... but what the heck is a "Piano Grand"?
Never heard of Schenker?
Dave Brubeck - Thank You . . . si tu as des oreilles comme tu sembles le dire, tu devrais être capable de saisir la différence . . .sans rancune.
To be politically correct, of course - PBS is celebrating the 300th anniversary of the invention of the piano not the Steinway. A minor point to us but a big deal to the pin-heads at PBS!
A CHopin tribute with Liszt music...very strange. It may be a Liszt tribute. The musci is Love's dream from Liszt!!! (Un tributo a Chopin con música de Liszt....muy extraño. Debería ser un Tributo a Liszt!!!
Dude. In silence? Come on now, lets not take ourselves too seriously?
I do disagree with this, and I did not use the word ignorant, this is not what the word "inane" means - perhaps you should look it up. While your at it, look up the word "Pompous".
Well, I think it's more suited for Michele LeGrange, who does this better. For Brubeck, I'll "Take 5."
hm, i think chopin would be astonished if someone could bring his own (chopin´s) music more in order then he did himself...
You obviously have no appreciation of the true beauty of Chopin's music. Have you actually listened to anything other than Nocturne No. 2?
Why do you think great musicians such as Brubeck pay tribute to him. Stating that Chopin's music is "saccharine" is just inane.
This is truly lovely, but has absolutely nothing to do with Chopin whose work I know intimately. Not even in the same ballpark.
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Bad video, bad sound. . . amateur !!!
dear pro... some of us listen to the gold, and others have their ears stuck up in their... arrogance