Dave Brubek died

David Warren Brubek, a world -famous pianist and composer, died on December 5 in Noruolka, Connecticut, on the way to a cardiologist. Brubek died on the eve of his ninety -water.

In 92, during the European tour, a seventy -two -year -old pianist was twice hospitalized with serious heart failure. The consultation of the doctors decided that, most likely, Brubek’s health was weakened by a protracted cold. A few years before the tour, Dave Brubek underwent a difficult operation on the aorto -oral noise of the heart. What is typical of Brubek, he flatly refused to interrupt the tour and allowed himself only a few days of rest.



Dave Brubek was born in Concord, California, on December sixth, 1920. In those years, Concord was 48 kilometers east of San Francisco. The town was small - 26 thousand inhabitants. In the post-war years, Concord was absorbed in the incorporated suburbs of San Francisco, Bay Area, and became the home of the recording company Carl Jebeperson Concord Jazz. When the first jazz festival was announced in the city, Dave's game came three times more people than in the town of residents when Dave was born.

Dave Brubek was aware that his blood is an explosive mixture of Russian, English, Indian and German ancestors. But he did not know the details.
Brubek brought his classic quartet with Paul Desksophon, Gin Wright at the double bass and Joe Morello on drums. The compositions of Take Five and Blue Rondo a la Tark were giant hits and came out at the forty -fifth.



Dave Brubek was also a modern classic pianist and composer. If we remember him, first of all, according to his famous plates Time out and Time Further Out, his records of the last decades, including his pianistic duets with his wife, make up a giant heritage that enriched not just jazz, but the world of music as such.