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Brubeck Brothers Quartet

The Brubeck Brothers are the actual brother duo of bassist/trombonist Chris Brubeck and drummer Dan Brubeck, both sons of famous jazz pianist Dave Brubeck. Having performed with their father from an early age, the pair released their first album, See How It Feels, in 1972. Although they are the featured performers in their group, the Brubeck Brothers are joined by guitarist Mike DeMicco and pianist Chuck Lamb. The Brubeck Brothers have released several additional albums, including Second Nature (2000), Intuition (2006), Classified (2008) and LifeTimes, released in 2012. The Quartet's most recent recording, TimeLine celebrates the 60th anniversary of Dave Brubeck's historic 1958 State Department Tour, and has been receiving rave reviews and lots of radio airplay.

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Brubeck Brothers Quartet: Timeline

Read "Timeline" reviewed 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 ...

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Brubeck Brothers Quartet: Timeline

Read "Timeline" reviewed 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 ...

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Brubeck Brothers Quartet at Arizona Musicfest

Read "Brubeck Brothers Quartet at Arizona Musicfest" reviewed 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, ...

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Brubeck Brothers Quartet: at Filoli Estate

Read "Brubeck Brothers Quartet: at Filoli Estate" reviewed 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 ...

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The Brubeck Brothers Quartet: LifeTimes

Read "LifeTimes" reviewed 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 ...

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The Brubeck Brothers Quartet: LifeTimes

Read "LifeTimes" reviewed 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 ...

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The Brubeck Brothers Quartet: Classified

Read "Classified" reviewed 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 ...

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The Brubeck Brothers Quartet Releases "Timeline," Celebrating Dave Brubeck's Historic 1958 State Dept. Tour

The 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 ...

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"Lifetimes," New CD By Brubeck Brothers Quartet, To Be Released July 24

"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 ...

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Brubecks to Bring Their Magic to Show in Wilton

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 ...

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Music Industry

The Next Generation of Jazz

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 ...

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Brubeck Brothers Quartet to Perform in Cooperstown, NY

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 ...

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Brubeck Brothers Quartet at Chris' Jazz Cafe on June 26, 2008

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

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CD: Brubeck Brothers

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 ...

"Once again the Brubeck Brothers quartet attains that rarefied level where music is both relaxed and expressive." ALL ABOUT JAZZ

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Timeline

Blue Forest Records
2018

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LifeTimes

Blue Forest Records
2012

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Classified

KOCH International Jazz
2008

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Intuition

KOCH International Jazz
2006

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