R.I.P. Dave Brubeck

The great jazz pianist and composer died today aged 91 of heart failure.

Here he is in 1966 playing “Take Five”, a tune in 5/4 time not written by him, but made  famous by the Dave Brubeck Quartet.
 

 
And while on the subject of Dave Brubeck, here is a solo by his drummer, Joe Morello who died last year. I attended a drum clinic conducted by Joe Morello in the early ’60s and he was just as blisteringly brilliant in person:
 

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