Tuesday 7 December 2010

Happy birthday, Dave Brubeck

Legendary jazzman Dave Brubeck enjoyed his 90th birthday yesterday. He may be 90, and just recently gotten over pacemaker surgery, but that didn’t stop him playing a weekend engagement last week at New York's Blue Note Club.

Here he is with his Quartet in the 50s, with Paul Desmond on saxophone (Brubeck is the egg-headed looking chap on piano comping in behind him).

[Hat tip Pete Margasak and Jazz on the Tube]

1 comment:

Jeffrey Perren said...

That's amazing. I had no idea Brubeck was still performing.

His Time Out album is a real classic in the field, very innovative for 1959 and still highly listenable.