A jazz legend is no more. Sadly, the
incomparable composer and pianist Dave Brubeck never made his 92 birthday today
(December 6). He died of heart failure yesterday morning at Norwalk Hospital in
Connecticut.
With him at the time of his death was
Darius Brubeck, one of his sons, who is well-known to Durban jazz lovers as he
was the main driving force behind the creation of the University of
KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Jazz.
A towering worldwide jazz personality for
many decades, Dave Brubeck toured with the likes of Duke Ellington and Ella
Fitzgerald. The Dave Brubeck Quartet sold millions of albums in the 1950s and
'60s and produced the unforgettable Take
Five which is hailed as the biggest-selling jazz single of all time. It was
written by Brubeck’s long-time saxophonist Paul Desmond.
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