http://www.theworld.org/2012/12/pioneering-jazz-musician-dave-brubeck-dies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pioneering-jazz-musician-dave-brubeck-dies Global Perspectives for an American Audience Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.theworld.org/2012/12/pioneering-jazz-musician-dave-brubeck-dies/comment-page-1/#comment-26735 Michael Tiemann Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:58:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=150892#comment-26735 PRI has made a most ironic selection in choosing how best to honor Dave Brubeck and his quartet's most iconic composition: Take Five.  Val Bennett's Ska cover exemplifies how *not* to play Take Five, falling out of the 3-2 feel into a 2-2-2 feel immediately after the three bar introduction (at 4:31 in the soundcloud file).  This is perhaps the most common mistake one would expect from a middle-school band class playing the piece for the first time, but not something that their band teacher should ever let them play in concert, and certainly not something that should be played as the final eulogy for the great innovator of rhythm in jazz, Dave Brubeck. PRI has made a most ironic selection in choosing how best to honor Dave Brubeck and his quartet’s most iconic composition: Take Five.  Val Bennett’s Ska cover exemplifies how *not* to play Take Five, falling out of the 3-2 feel into a 2-2-2 feel immediately after the three bar introduction (at 4:31 in the soundcloud file).  This is perhaps the most common mistake one would expect from a middle-school band class playing the piece for the first time, but not something that their band teacher should ever let them play in concert, and certainly not something that should be played as the final eulogy for the great innovator of rhythm in jazz, Dave Brubeck.

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