On April 7-13, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dave Brubeck Festival will honor Dave Brubeck, one of America’s most significant jazz musicians to emerge after the Swing Era. The Dave Brubeck Festival will include seven nights of concerts, pre-concert discussions and a new multi-media exhibit throughout Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, located at Broadway at 60th Street, New York, New York.
The complete Dave Brubeck Festival schedule and details:
The Life & Music of Dave Brubeck
Featuring Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
April 10-12, 2014
Rose Theater, 8pm
Over the course of his extraordinarily productive 92 years, more than seventy of them spent as a professional musician, Dave Brubeck (1920-2012), who became a household name when Time magazine placed his picture on its cover in 1954, served his country in World War II, studied with the composer Darius Milhaud, wrote several hundred songs for a series of constantly working quartets propelled by his distinctive piano voice, composed numerous extended works—operas, oratorios, ballets, suites—that bespoke his continued artistic growth, performed as a solo pianist, and, after 2000, devoted consequential time to the prestigious Brubeck Institute at the University of Pacific, his alma mater. This evening in Rose Theater, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis explores Brubeck’s legacy with fresh arrangements of his corpus that illuminate the maestro’s breadth and scope.
Tickets Start at $30
Free pre-concert discussion at 7pm with Simon Rowe, Executive Director of the Brubeck Institute; Russell Gloyd, Brubeck’s longtime manager, producer and friend (4/10 only); Chris Brubeck, trombonist, bassist, pianist (4/11 only); and Darius Brubeck, pianist (4/12 only).
The Real Ambassadors
Featuring Peter Martin, narrator Yolande Bavan, Roberta Gambarini, Russell Graham, Robert Hurst, Brian Owens, Ulysses Owens, Vivian Sessoms, Ty Stephens, James Zollar
April 11-12, 2014
The Allen Room, 7pm & 9:30pm
Towards the end of the 1950s, when he was at the height of his fame, pianist-composer Dave Brubeck (1920-2012) and his wife Iola, in collaboration with Louis Armstrong, drew on their respective experiences spreading American culture and music around the world at the behest of the U.S. State Department to create a jazz musical titled The Real Ambassadors. Brubeck’s and Armstrong’s groups coalesced—together with singer Carmen McRae and the vocal group Lambert, Hendricks & Bevan—to record the soundtrack in December 1961, and to perform at the 1962 Monterey Jazz Festival. Peter Martin, pianist and Music Director of these concerts, restages this still-topical masterwork, which addressed the civil rights movement and includes Iola Brubeck’s classic lyric “They Say I Look Like God.” Vocalists include Roberta Gambarini, Brian Owens, Vivian Sessoms, Russell Graham, Ty Stephens.
Tickets Start at $45
Free pre-concert discussion at 6pm & 8:30pm with Ricky Riccardi, Curator, Louis Armstrong House Museum; and Keith Hatschek, Professor at the University of the Pacific, and Dave Brubeck scholar.
Brubeck Brothers Quartet
April 7-8, 2014
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, 7:30pm & 9:30pm
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola presents The Brubeck Brothers Quartet featuring Dan Brubeck on drums and Chris Brubeck on bass & trombone, two members of one of America’s most accomplished musical families. Guitarist Mike DeMicco and pianist Chuck Lamb complete this dynamic quartet.
Cover charge is $30 and $15 (students).
Darius, Chris and Dan Brubeck
April 9 and 13, 2014
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, 7:30pm & 9:30pm
Since 2010, Darius, Chris and Dan Brubeck have toured together, joined by Dave O’Higgins, in salute to their father Dave Brubeck’s legacy. They perform many of his most iconic hits, including “Take Five,” “Blue Rondo a la Turk,” and “Unsquare Dance,” as well as original compositions by the brothers.
Cover charge is $30 and $15 (students).
Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet
April 10 and 12, 2014
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, 7:30pm & 9:30pm
The members of the Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet (BIJQ) have won numerous DownBeat Student Music Awards for best collegiate jazz group in the country. Touring regularly throughout the United States, the 2013-14 BIJQ members are Max Boiko, trumpet; Joel Ross, vibraphones; Sean Britt, guitar; Sarah Kuo, bass; and Jalon D’Mere Archie, drums. Special guests will include pianist Joe Gilman and saxophonist Patrick Langham on April 10 and vibraphonist Stefon Harris on April 12.
Cover charge is $35 and $25 (students).
Brubeck Institute Jazz Alumni Quintet
April 11, 2014
Alumni members of the Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet (BIJQ) from 2002-2011 reunite for one night only for this special concert.
Cover charge is $35 and $25 (students).
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s newest exhibition, Dave Brubeck: Jazz Ambassador is free and open to the public. Historical photographs, scores, ephemera—including programs and correspondence—and rare interview and concert footage shine a light on Brubeck’s remarkable life and work as a composer, bandleader, socially-engaged artist, and cultural ambassador.
Tickets to Rose Theater and The Allen Room concerts can be purchased through jazz.org 24 hours a day or CenterCharge at 212-721-6500, open daily from 10am to 9pm. Tickets can also be purchased at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Box Office, located on Broadway at 60th Street, ground floor. Box Office hours: Monday–Saturday from 10am to 6pm (or 30 minutes past curtain) and Sunday from noon to 6pm (or 30 minutes past curtain).
For Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola reservations, call (212) 258-9595 or visit www.jazz.org/dizzys.
Dinner served nightly.
General Admission: $20-$45 (unless noted otherwise); students: $5-$25 with valid student ID (selected sets only).
For more information on Dave Brubeck, please visit davebrubeck.com and pacific.edu/Community/Centers-Clinics-and-Institutes/Brubeck-Institute.html .
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Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2013-14 Concert and Education Season boasts a diverse range of artistry and embodies the concept “all jazz is modern.” Click here for the complete season schedule.
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