Far More.

Dave Brubeck, an icon from my childhood, died today. I wrote about him a few months ago and the influence he eventually had on my musical choices. But there is more.

Sometime around 2002 I heard a story on him on WGVU that delved into his experimentation with time signatures and examined the work that followed his ubiquitous Time Out: an album called Time Further Out. I thought I'd found that story in this piece: Dave Brubeck On Piano Jazz. It's lovely, but it's not it. It seems all the stories reporting on his ultimate retirement are flooding my search results. Which is actually wonderful, that there are some many.

That feature introduced me to the larger body of work that Dave Brubeck, and the quartet as a whole, had created. And made clear there was so much more than the single Take Five. They had gone further out...

Good night, friends.