Jazz Legend Dave Brubeck Dead at Age 91
This morning, a day before his 92nd birthday, jazz piano legend Dave Brubeck passed away of heart failure on the way to a cardiology appointment. Winner of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Kennedy Center Honor, Brubeck was a major pioneer in jazz, working with unusual time signatures and tonalities, and is best known for the song “Take Five.” The Dave Brubeck Quartet’s seminal 1959 album Time Out was the first jazz record to sell over a million copies. He is also credited for helping bring jazz to college campuses and working to integrate jazz clubs in the South.
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