Home » Jazz Musicians » Brubeck Brothers Quartet
Brubeck Brothers Quartet
Tags
Brubeck Brothers Quartet: Timeline
by Mike Jurkovic
Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie had gone before him as Eisenhower's jazz ambassadors for America, when pianist Dave Brubeck--along with his sizzling quartet comprising alto saxophonist, Paul Desmond, drummer Joe Morello and bassist Eugene White--set out on their 1958 State Department-sponsored tour. The group gave around 80 official performances across 14 countries, taking in Europe (west and east of the Iron Curtain) and the Middle East. Timeline is the Brubeck Brothers's infectious 60th anniversary celebration of ...
read moreBrubeck Brothers Quartet: Timeline
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
This album by the Brubeck Brothers--led by Chris and Dan Brubeck, sons of legendary pianist Dave Brubeck--commemorates the 60th anniversary of President Eisenhower's Special International Program for Cultural Presentations," the 1958 State department tour in which prominent jazz musicians traveled to 14 countries to give 80 concerts in 90 days. This grueling schedule was endured by such luminaries as Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, and the Dave Brubeck Quartet. For Brubeck, the inspiration was mutual, reflected in compositions that ...
read moreBrubeck Brothers Quartet at Arizona Musicfest
by Patricia Myers
Brubeck Brothers Quartet Arizona Musicfest Highlands Church Scottsdale, Arizona February 7, 2014 Those Brubeck boys really nailed it at Arizona Musicfest, performing a concert-with-commentary tribute that traced their famed father's six-decade career. Dave Brubeck's musical and personal history was celebrated by trombonist-bassist Chris Brubeck and drummer Dan Brubeck, playing his hits and telling the tales behind them, with photos and videos shown on a pair of big screens. Brubeck's two biggest hits, ...
read moreBrubeck Brothers Quartet: at Filoli Estate
by Bill Leikam
Brubeck Brothers QuartetFiloli EstateWoodside, CaliforniaAugust 23, 2013Six hundred fifty people streamed onto what had years before been a tennis court converted into an outdoor concert setting at the early 20th Century Filoli Estate, just south of San Francisco, California. Add to that the 50 volunteers and there were 700 people listening to the final, sold-out jazz concert of the season to hear the Brubeck Brothers Quartet. Accompanying the Brubeck brothers--Chris Brubeck on electric bass and ...
read moreThe Brubeck Brothers Quartet: LifeTimes
by Dan Bilawsky
Jazz has proven, time and time again, that the bonds of family feed the creative soul. Everybody from the Jones brothers and the Marsalis family to the 3 Cohens have found satisfaction in the connection that comes with blood and blues, DNA and musical dynamism, and kinship of the artistic and literal varieties; The Brubeck Brothers are no exception. Chris and Dan Brubeck, the offspring of the one and only Dave Brubeck, having been playing and recording ...
read moreThe Brubeck Brothers Quartet: LifeTimes
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
LifeTimes, the fourth CD from the Brubeck Brothers Quartet, is a powerful tribute to musical giant Dave Brubeck by two of his natural sons (bassist/trombonist Chris Brubeck and drummer Dan Brubeck) and two of their honorary brothers" (guitarist Mike DeMicco and pianist Chuck Lamb). Half the compositions are Dave's, most of them dating back decades, but they are so freshly imagined that they sound as if they've just been written. The set ends with Take Five," which is Paul Desmond's ...
read moreThe Brubeck Brothers Quartet: Classified
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
This is the follow-up to the well-received Brubeck Brothers Quartet's Intuition (Koch, 2006), which spent three months in the jazz top 20. There are some obvious similarities: Classified is also unusually bountiful, weighing in at over 78 generous minutes; the band (aka the BBQ) features three of the same stellar players, now with regular touring partner Chuck Lamb rather than wunderkind Taylor Eigsti at the piano; and the music is uniformly excellent in its composition, execution, and recording quality. Now ...
read moreThe Brubeck Brothers Quartet Releases "Timeline," Celebrating Dave Brubeck's Historic 1958 State Dept. Tour
Source:
Mouthpiece Music
Chris Brubeck and Dan Brubeck are extensions of a remarkable jazz legacy. Although they toured and recorded with their father extensively, the immensely popular and influential jazz innovator Dave Brubeck, Chris and Dan have forged their own musical identities. Bassist and trombonist Chris and drummer Dan have previously released four albums with their band Brubeck Brothers Quartet. Along with their musical compatriots, Mike DeMicco on guitar and Chuck Lamb on piano, they are releasing their newest CD, Timeline (Blue Forest ...
read more
"Lifetimes," New CD By Brubeck Brothers Quartet, To Be Released July 24
Source:
Terri Hinte Publicity
Since the early 1970s, Chris and Dan Brubeck have performed and recorded frequently with their father Dave in Two Generations of Brubeck, the New Brubeck Quartet, and Trio Brubeck. Now, on the Brubeck Brothers Quartet’s new CD LifeTimes, they and “honorary brothers” Mike DeMicco (guitar) and Chuck Lamb (piano) have chosen to honor Brubeck père by reimagining a number of his best-known songs. “Dave Brubeck’s music is rich with challenging chord progressions and beautiful melodies,” says Chris. “Dave is one ...
read more
Brubecks to Bring Their Magic to Show in Wilton
Source:
All About Jazz
A melodically gifted bassist, Chris Brubeck, a prince in the Brubeck family dynasty, is also a fervent bass trombonist who can evoke dark, mysterious melancholy or swing with brassy, barn-burning heat and fury. What makes this Connecticut Yankee an all-American triple-threat is his ingenuity as a composer/arranger whose eclectic, yet fresh works wed the worlds of American jazz and European classical music. In fact, in Brubeck's all-embracing style -- whether his richly mixed genre is called third stream" (Gunther Schuller's ...
read more
The Next Generation of Jazz
Source:
All About Jazz
You could say it all began with a blue Porsche. It is what jazz musician Chris Brubeck remembers distinctly about his junior high music teacher Ray Tiezzi, who gave him his first few trombone lessons more than 40 years ago in Connecticut. It was a cool-looking car -- part of his persona," Brubeck, son of noted jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, said of Tiezzi's wheels. He was a really cool cat." Tiezzi went on to become the longtime principal at Amesbury ...
read more
Brubeck Brothers Quartet to Perform in Cooperstown, NY
Source:
All About Jazz
The Brubeck Brothers Quartet will perform Tuesday, August 19 at 7:30 pm at the Otesaga Resort Hotel, 60 Lake Street, Cooperstown, NY as part of the Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival. The Brubeck Brothers have performed at jazz festivals all over the country including Monterey, Detroit, Sedona, Ravinia and Las Vegas and the Jazz Times Jazz Cruise; with college big bands and conducted workshops and clinics at universities across the country. The BBQ has its own arrangements for not only big ...
read more
Brubeck Brothers Quartet at Chris' Jazz Cafe on June 26, 2008
Source:
All About Jazz
The Brubeck Brothers Quartet touring in support of their new CD Classified on the Koch International Classics label, perform at Chris' Jazz Cafe on June 26, 2008.
BRUBECK BROTHERS QUARTET Chris Brubeck - bass and bass trombone Dan Brubeck - drums Chuck Lamb - piano Mike DeMicco - guitar
June 26, 2008 Sets starting @ 8 PM Chris' Jazz Cafe 1421 Sansom St
read more
CD: Brubeck Brothers
Source:
All About Jazz
Brubeck Brothers Quartet, Classified (Koch). The band headed by bassist/trombonist Chris and drummer Dan Brubeck is in top form on seven new quartet compositions, an impressive chamber suite and a stirring ensemble version of their father's Blue Rondo a la Turk." Guitarist Mike DeMicco, pianist Chuck Lamb and the brothers have become one of the tightest ensembles in jazz without losing their sense of surprise, even abandon. When they combine with the Imani Winds for Chris Brubeck's three-movement Vignettes for ...
read more
Photos
Music
Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson