Columbia executives blocked its release for nearly a year — until label President Goddard Lieberson intervened. "They said, 'We never put out music that people can't dance to, and they can't dance to ...

“The Gates of Justice,” a large-scale 1969 choral work about relations between Black and Jewish Americans, is being performed in Los Angeles. By Zachary Woolfe Brian Thomas and Brooke Husic are back ...

Dave Brubeck, the cool, cerebral, and popular piano player and composer who represented, for many, the face and the sound of American jazz music in the 1950s, died on Wednesday, December 5, in Norwalk ...

The late pianist and composer never tired of playing his greatest hits. But both before and after his seminal 1959 album Time Out, Brubeck took... Pianist and composer Dave Brubeck, who died Wednesday ...

A statement from the Brubeck family, issued through University of the Pacific, says Mrs. Brubeck died peacefully at home with her family around her. Iola Whitlock was born in Corning, California. She ...

Dave Brubeck, the jazz pianist, composer and bandleader behind the legendary Dave Brubeck Quartet, has died at age 91. The death of Brubeck, whose quartet performed “Take Five,” which became a jazz ...

The renowned Jazz pianist known for his time-signatures died Wednesday at 91. By Jennifer Exley Hollywood is joining the jazz community to mourn the death of jazz legend Dave Brubeck on Wednesday.

This interview was originally broadcast in 1999. Brubeck died on Wednesday at age 91. Brubeck celebrated a milestone in 2009, when his seminal album Time Out, featuring the hits "Take Five" and "Blue ...

Brubeck's mother studied piano in England and intended to become a concert pianist; at home she taught piano for extra money. Brubeck was not particularly interested in learning by any particular ...

Dave Brubeck, a giant of American music who was largely responsible for turning modern jazz into pop music, died Wednesday a day short of his 92nd birthday. He was an ever-adventurous composer, ...

The quartet which he led between 1951 and 1967 achieved a level of popularity rarely seen in jazz, before or since. Its recording of Take Five (1959) remains one of the few jazz records instantly ...

Dave Brubeck was an exuberant American original whose expansive musical world encompassed cowboy songs, Stravinsky, Bach, Turkish scales and two-fisted Harlem stride piano. All of that found its way ...