A Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Dave Brubeck
remains a creative force with a knack for capturing the public’s imagination, particularly with his hard-charging quartet.
In the ’50s, the Dave Brubeck Quartet redefined jazz, making odd time signatures swing, and putting jazz atop the pop charts with the single “Take Five.” At 87, Brubeck is a lion in winter, a jazz legend who refuses to rest on his laurels, which include a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Brubeck remains a creative force with a knack for capturing the public’s imagination, particularly with his hard-charging quartet. Dave Brubeck made jazz mainstream, not by watering it down, but by making odd time signatures swing. Time Out remains one of the best selling jazz albums of all time.




