Dave Brubeck Transcriptions

Biography of Dave Brubeck

Dave Brubeck (1920–2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, a foremost exponent of cool jazz celebrated for his groundbreaking experiments with unusual time signatures and polyrhythms, most famously on his 1959 album Time Out. The album, featuring Paul Desmond's iconic composition "Take Five," became the first jazz LP to sell over a million copies and introduced jazz to a vast new audience through extensive college tours. A "Living Legend" designated by the Library of Congress, his six-decade career also included significant works that fused jazz with classical music and reflected his lifelong commitment to social justice.