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Darius Brubeck

In 1983, Darius Brubeck introduced the first Jazz Studies degree in Africa and he was the Director of the Centre for Jazz & Popular Music until 2006. He established an international reputation touring with South African musicians. His current bands include The Darius Brubeck Quartet, Gathering Forces and Brubecks Play Brubeck, with his brothers Chris and Dan, which is touring the UK in November/December. Creative highlights include “Commission 2004” (with Zim Ngqawana) for the inaugural season of Jazz at Lincoln Center and this was performed by Wynton Marsalis, Morgan Freeman and Lincoln Centre Jazz Orchestra. Two original compositions and many of Darius’ arrangements of Dave Brubeck hits have been performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. In 2010 he taught and toured in Romania as a Fulbright Professor and was also a Fulbright jazz specialist in Turkey in 2007 and is among the few jazz musicians ever to perform in Saudi Arabia (2011) He currently divides his time between South Africa, England and the US.


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Larry Coryell: Improvisations: Best of the Vanguard Years

Read "Larry Coryell: Improvisations: Best of the Vanguard Years" reviewed by Josef Woodard


There have been many smoother operators in the world of jazz guitar than Larry Coryell, the brainy rough rider who was a natural-born fusioneer, in the best sense. There have been cleaner technicians on the instrument, with a more lucid sense of identity and careers that have followed a logical, rolling landscape. But not many have quite attained Coryell's strange, madly eclectic state of grace: into music he came, he saw and heard things not yet articulated, he conquered on ...

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The Darius Brubeck Quartet: Live In Poland

Read "Live In Poland" reviewed by Chris May


Early on in his career, the pianist Darius Brubeck bowed to the inevitable. Accepting that he was always going to be compared to his father, Dave Brubeck, he both embraced his heritage and sidelined it. In the 1970s, embracing it, he was a member of Two Generations Of Brubeck and The New Brubeck Quartet, groups which played original material but had audiences who came along mainly to hear performances of tunes written by or associated with Brubeck père: “(It's A) ...

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The Darius Brubeck Quartet: For Lydia and the Lion

Read "For Lydia and the Lion" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


The first music that Darius Brubeck became familiar with was jazz, which is not surprising given the family he was born into. Brubeck studied the music and played it along with his father Dave and his brothers Chris and Dan as well as his own groups. Brubeck, however, did not confine himself to that one form; he expanded his repertoire with several styles including Indian and African music, rock and folk. Moreover, he played electronic piano and the synthesizer. His ...

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Live In Poland

Ubuntu Music
2019

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In Our Own Way

Self Pro
2018

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Cathy's Summer

Gathering Forces
2014

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Brubecks Play Brubeck

Gathering Forces
2011

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For Lydia and the Lion

Self Produced
2009

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Improvisations: Best...

Vanguard Records
2007

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