brubeck in a sentence

1. While still a student, Brubeck founded an Octet.

2. At Carnegie Hall is a jazz album by The Dave Brubeck Quartet.

3. And you can't understand jazz, without understanding Dave Brubeck.

4. For years the musician was the bandleader of the “Dave Brubeck ...

5. Being a "good guy" was no small thing to Dave Brubeck or his fans.

6. Brubeck became proof that creative jazz and popular success can go together.

7. Almost 5 years ago, the American jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck died.

8. That night, the Dave Brubeck Quartet brought the walls between cultures crashing down.

9. That evening of October 1967, the Dave Brubeck Quartet were more than just a jazz band.

10. Brubeck wrote a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke."

11. (Oddly enough, most critics consider Brubeck something of a classical pianist playing jazz.)

12. 4 time, was one of a number of irregular-meter compositions that The Dave Brubeck Quartet played.

13. He successfully adapted Dave Brubeck compositions to the guitar ('Blue Rondo a la Turk', 'Take Five').

14. What Dave Brubeck Quartet recording became the first jazz instrumental to sell more than 1 million copies?

15. The album "Time Out" was inspired by the different music styles Brubeck discovered while traveling abroad.

16. Brubeck performed at the White House in 1964 and 1981 and at the 1988 Moscow summit honoring the Gorbachevs.

17. Jazz Goes to College is a 1954 album documenting the North American college tour of the Dave Brubeck Quartet.

18. For no one – apart from Brubeck himself – would have seen and heard his conservatively estimated 12,000 concerts.

19. Every composition of the of the set was written by Brubeck, two tunes of which were co-written with his wife, Lola.

20. As much as we love both recordings, we’re going to go with Brubeck, if only because he and his bandmates all wore glasses.