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>Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck dead at age 91
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>Dave Brubeck (December 5, 2012)
>Howard Reich Arts critic
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>10:34 a.m. CST, December 5, 2012
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>Dave Brubeck, a jazz musician who attained pop-star acclaim
>with recordings such as "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo a la
>Turk," died Wednesday morning at Norwalk Hospital, in Norwalk,
>Conn., said his longtime manager-producer-conductor Russell
>Gloyd.
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>Brubeck was one day short of his 92nd birthday. He died of
>heart failure, en route to "a regular treatment with his
>cardiologist,” said Gloyd.
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>Throughout his career, Brubeck defied conventions long imposed
>on jazz musicians. The tricky meters he played in “Take Five”
>and other works transcended standard conceptions of swing
>rhythm.
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>The extended choral/symphonic works he penned and performed
>around the world took him well outside the accepted boundaries
>of jazz. And the concerts he brought to colleges across the
>country in the 1950s shattered the then-long-held notion that
>jazz had no place in academia.
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>As a pianist, he applied the classical influences of his
>teacher, the French master Darius Milhaud, to jazz, playing
>with an elegance of tone and phrase that supposedly were the
>antithesis of the American sound.
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>As a humanist, he was at the forefront of integration, playing
>black jazz clubs throughout the deep South in the ’50s, a
>point of pride for him.
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>"For as long as I’ve been playing jazz, people have been
>trying to pigeonhole me,” he once told the Tribune.
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>"Frankly, labels bore me."
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>He is survived by his wife, Iola; four sons and a daughter;
>grandsons and a great granddaughter.
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