Dave Brubeck Live in Worcester | Nov. 19th, 2010

Jazz Legend Dave Brubeck Returns to Worcester to “Take 5”
One Night Only – Friday, November 19, 2010!

Music Worcester, Inc. is proud to present The Dave Brubeck Quartet on Friday, November 19, 2010, at Mechanics Hall, 8pm, sponsored by Unibank.

The legendary Dave Brubeck, a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors, Smithsonian Medal, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award is returning for his first concert in Worcester since 2008! His innovative career has earned him the designations of “Living Legend” by the Library of Congress, “Jazz Master” by the National Endowment for the Arts, and a recent induction into the American Classical Hall of Fame. Brubeck’s international honors and accolades are too numerous to mention and The Dave Brubeck Quartet continues to be one of the most popular acts in the world today! 

Brubeck’s illustrious career spans over six decades, and his experiments in odd time signatures, improvised counterpoint, polyrhythm and polytonality remain hallmarks of innovation. The Dave Brubeck quartet’s recordings and concert appearances on college campuses in the ‘50s and early ‘60s introduced jazz to thousands of young people. The quartet’s audiences were not limited to students, however. The group played in jazz clubs in every major city and toured in package shows with such artists as Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzerald, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz.  The Dave Brubeck Quartet repeatedly won top honors in trade magazines and critic’s and reader’s polls.  In 1954 Dave Brubeck’s portrait appeared on the cover of Time Magazine with a story about the jazz renaissance and Brubeck’s phenomenal ascendancy. The 1959 recording “Time Out” became the first jazz album to sell over a million copies and “Blue Rondo a la Turk” and “Take Five” (now in the Grammy Hall of Fame) began to appear on jukeboxes throughout the world.

Throughout his career Brubeck has continued to experiment with interweaving jazz and classical music.  He has performed as composer-performer with most of the major orchestras in the United States and with prestigious choral groups and orchestras in Europe and America.

Join us in welcoming Dave Brubeck and his Quartet back to the stage at Mechanics Hall in what can only be expected as a lovefest for jazz fans!

Since 1858, Music Worcester, Inc. has had a rich tradition of offering the finest music programming and currently offers a full season of artistically diverse and world-renowned, international music and dance performances. Concerts are performed at Mechanics Hall, Tuckerman Hall and the Hanover Theatre. For more information on this season’s program, or for tickets, go to www.musicworcester.org or call 508.754.3231.
Music Worcester is located at 323 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01608.