-------------------------- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H L Mencken
I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is. -- JALLEN 10/18/18
May 04, 2017, 03:19 PM
bald1
Love that song!
Certifiable member of the gun toting, septuagenarian, bucket list workin', crazed retiree, bald is beautiful club! USN (RET), COTEP #192
May 04, 2017, 03:31 PM
coachB
Blue Rondo ala Turk.
My introduction to jazz in the mid-50's was due to an uncle that had an FM radio at the time. A bit unusual at the time as it was almost exclusively AM. Every Sunday we visited his family and he was always tuned to WJZZ out of Fairfield, CT. Brubeck was somehow affiliated with the station, part-owner I think. They had his music on a lot, along with Ahmad Jamal, Errol Garner, and a host of other jazz legends. Prompted a lifelong love affair with jazz.
May 04, 2017, 03:54 PM
SIGnified
I met him once. He came into a restaurant I worked at, and I got his autograph on a menu.
His music is the score for my childhood (along with MD).
"Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw
May 04, 2017, 04:32 PM
mark_a
A stellar musician.
May 04, 2017, 05:45 PM
cne32507
I saw the quartet in college. When Paul Desmond played the sax, I was thunderstruck: "That's what a saxaphone sounds like?" It didn't sound like the sax in our high school band, that's for sure.
May 04, 2017, 05:48 PM
ArtieS
quote:
Originally posted by bald1: Love that song!
As I recall, you have a system that will do it justice as well.
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.
May 04, 2017, 07:30 PM
NK402
I too saw them in my college gymnasium. When they played Take 5, Paul Desmond did a short solo, as the rest of the musicians did their solos, Desmond left the stage, walked over, leaned against the wall and lit a cigarette, when he finished the cigarette, he walked back on stage and finished his solo. It was the height of cool !
May 04, 2017, 07:40 PM
newtoSig765
Early jazz from Brubeck's era and earlier was my favorite music. Nothing spoke "Cool" like Brubeck.
-------------------------- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H L Mencken
I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is. -- JALLEN 10/18/18
May 04, 2017, 08:04 PM
mttaylor1066
Small world, our handyman is married to Dave Brubeck's granddaughter.
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Company, villainous company hath been the spoil of me.
May 04, 2017, 08:06 PM
smschulz
I saw him in the late eighties (maybe early nineties)? Loved his music.
I like that song. It used to be the intro music to a radio talk show I used to listen to at work.
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
May 04, 2017, 10:47 PM
ElToro
quote:
Originally posted by Rey HRH: I like that song. It used to be the intro music to a radio talk show I used to listen to at work.
wasn't that the Jim Eason show ? he was a great host.
my parents saw him in the 60s, he lived in the Bay Area and played here
May 05, 2017, 05:39 AM
brminpin
quote:
Originally posted by ArtieS:
quote:
Originally posted by bald1: Love that song!
As I recall, you have a system that will do it justice as well.
Take Five is amazing on a well set up 2 channel system. One of my favorites.
May 05, 2017, 07:30 AM
UTsig
I saw them at Franklin and Marshall College back around 1964. I was young and probably more a Beach Boys fan but I've always loved "Take Five" since then.
"Nature scares me" a quote by my friend Bob after a rough day at sea.
May 05, 2017, 11:57 PM
Rey HRH
quote:
Originally posted by ElToro:
quote:
Originally posted by Rey HRH: I like that song. It used to be the intro music to a radio talk show I used to listen to at work.
wasn't that the Jim Eason show ? he was a great host.
my parents saw him in the 60s, he lived in the Bay Area and played here
Yeah, that's him. He had a great voice.
But towards the end of his career, he got lazy. I'm not criticizing him, just making the observation. Often, he would just read the newspaper as if he would be editorializing and connecting the dots but he never did. Move back south where he built a broadcasting room in his house, did at least a season from there, then retired.
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
