Dave Brubeck

Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/12/07/dave-brubeck

Jazz great Dave Brubeck drove cattle on horseback as a boy on his father’s California ranch.  Always remembered the hooves and their beat.  Exciting.  Syncopated.  All over.  You can hear it in his music.

At his piano keyboard.  Brubeck died this week at nearly 92.  He took jazz to places and people it had not been before, with a sound at once thrilling and familiar.  Performed nearly to the end.  A giant who stuck around a long, long time.

This hour, On Point:  the life and music of jazz great Dave Brubeck.

-Tom Ashbrook