Darius Brubeck & Dan Brubeck - Gathering Forces

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1992
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:17
Size: 99,2 MB
Art: Front

(10:14)  1. Earthrise
( 5:52)  2. Three Mile Island
( 6:09)  3. Kearsage Strut
( 2:49)  4. Just Think About WHat Happens
( 6:33)  5. Tugela Rail
( 4:55)  6. The Parrot
( 6:44)  7. I Say There's Hope

Brubeck majored in ethnomusicology and the history of religion at Wesleyan University, graduating cum laude. Brubeck holds an MPhil from Nottingham University. "He was awarded a Bellagio Project Residency (Rockefeller Foundation) as Composer in 2005 and received 'Outstanding Service to Jazz Education' awards in 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2005 and 2006." Darius performed (with all three of his brothers) at the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors Gala when his father received a medal for his lifetime contribution to American culture. President Barack Obama and Mrs Michelle Obama were in the audience. Brubeck currently lives in the south of England in East Sussex.

During the 1970s and early '80s, pianist Brubeck led his own groups, played with Don McLean, Larry Coryell and toured the world with Two Generations of Brubeck and The New Brubeck Quartet (Dave, Darius, Chris and Dan Brubeck). Several albums were recorded along the way. Brubeck's focus changed to South Africa in 1983, when he initiated the first degree course in Jazz Studies offered by an African university. He taught at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban, South Africa, and was later appointed Director of the Centre for Jazz and Popular Music, where he remained until 2006. 

After leaving full-time teaching, he was made a Senior Research Associate of the School of Music. While based in London, he taught courses at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Brunel University. He has an M.Phil Degree from Nottingham University, where he also taught jazz history for a year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_Brubeck

Personnel: Darius Brubeck (piano, keyboards); Chris Bishop (vocals); Nelson Bogart (guitar, trumpet, background vocals); Bob Hanlon (flute, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, background vocals); Dan Brubeck (drums, percussion); Dave Weckl (drums).

Gathering Forces

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Dan Brubeck Quartet - Celebrating The Music And Lyrics Of Dave & Iola Brubeck

Size: 208 MB
Time: 86:21
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Jazz
Art: Front

CD 1:
01. In Your Own Sweet Way ( 6:13)
02. Since Love Had Its Way ( 6:02)
03. Summer Song ( 6:01)
04. It's A Raggy Waltz ( 2:39)
05. Autumn In Our Town ( 4:09)
06. Lord, Lord ( 6:11)
07. Ode To A Cowboy ( 4:10)
08. Blue Rondo A La Turk ( 6:04)

CD 2:
01. Strange Meadowlark ( 7:04)
02. The Desert And The Parched Land ( 6:35)
03. For Iola ( 7:26)
04. The Duke ( 4:29)
05. Weep No More ( 5:08)
06. Take Five (14:08)

The Dan Brubeck Quartet’s two-disc set casts a penetrating light on a brilliant but little-known chapter in the creative alliance between Dave and Iola Brubeck that transformed the way jazz is presented and perceived. Essential for Brubeck fans and an invaluable resource for American Songbook aficionados looking for fresh material, Celebrating… is a strong candidate for jazz vocal album of the year.

Dan, the second youngest of the Dave and Iola’s six children, has long wanted to explore some of the songs and lyrics that his parents collaborated on over the years. The opportunity recently arose with some of the finest jazz players in the Vancouver, Canada, including saxophonist Steve Kaldestad, pianist Tony Foster, and bassist/vocalist Adam Thomas.

In the midst of the Quartet's exceptional talent, Thomas is one of the project’s most delightful revelations. A startlingly soulful singer who puts a personal stamp on a wide array of material, he delivers an impressive vocal debut. Fittingly, “Sweet Way” is the track that opens the album, and like many of the pieces that follow, Iola wrote the lyrics specifically for a jazz legend (Carmen McRae). Iola, who died last year at the age of 90, wrote incisive insider commentary about the songs for album’s liner notes. Dave Brubeck passed in 2012 at the age of 91.

Thomas’s most impressive feat is the easygoing authority he brings to interpreting songs the Brubecks created with Louis Armstrong in mind. He swings joyfully on “Since Love Had Its Way,” and wrings every wistful drop from the masterpiece “Summer Song,” an intoxicating draught of song that has unaccountably remained uncovered until this year (both songs were introduced by Satchmo in the Brubecks’ politically astute jazz musical The Real Ambassadors). Adding to the aching poignancy of “Summer Song” is the fact that the chorus serves as Dave and Iola’s epitaph.

"Celebrating…" is more than an act of filial love. It’s a brilliantly realized statement about the capacity of even the best known artists to surprise. With Thomas’s masterly vocals reintroducing the songs of Dave and Iola Brubeck, it seems unlikely they’ll remain hidden much longer. “I want people to cover these tunes,” Dan says. “They’ve been buried, but once singers hear them, I think a lot of them are going to want to do them.”

Celebrating The Music And Lyrics Of Dave & Iola Brubeck CD 1
Celebrating The Music And Lyrics Of Dave & Iola Brubeck CD 2

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