Thread by @dean_frey

Remembering Dave Brubeck on his birthday 🎂
📷 Bob Willoughby, 1950
“Brubeck’s popularity proved surprisingly robust despite the obstacles he often put in the way of casual listeners, and his following never ebbed, even as other jazz stars came and went."
- @tedgioia

Wayne Miller's great photo of The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright, Joe Morello, 1959
Live in Portland:

The Dave Brubeck Quartet at Idlewild Airport: Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright, Joe Morello
📷 Dennis Stock, 1958

Don Hunstein's colour shot of Dave Brubeck & his Quartet (Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright, Joe Morello) recording Desmond's "Take Five" at Columbia's 30th Street Studio, summer 1959. The 1st million selling jazz single.
Time Outtakes:

One of the greatest jazz album covers ever:
Richard Avedon's shot of Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Bob Bates & Joe Dodge
Jazz: Red Hot and Cool, 1955

The caption for this great Eliot Elisofon shot of the Dave Brubeck Quartet was "Foursome in a Free Form". Paul Desmond, Dave Brubeck, Joe Dodge, Bob Bates. #JazzEssay 1954

Time machine: set me down here in 1957.
The Crescendo nightclub on the Sunset Strip, with Mort Sahl and Dave Brubeck on the marquee
📷 USC Libraries

When Time magazine put Dave Brubeck on the cover of its November 8, 1954, it was a big deal for Brubeck & for jazz. Boris Artzybasheff's portrait of the pianist is fabulous. I love how he makes reference to the other members of the Quartet: Paul Desmond, Joe Dodge & Bob Bates.

The Time cover is featured on the cover of the Dave Brubeck Quartet's 1955 LP, Brubeck Time. I just got the pun in the title! A great album.
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Christopher Hogwood with a whole bunch of Brubecks: Dave, Chris & Dan. Four of Dave Brubeck's sons are professional musicians; the others are Matt & Darius, named after Dave's teacher & mentor Darius Milhaud.
📷 Mark Wilson, 1998

Dave Brubeck & his teacher Darius Milhaud
📷 Jerry Stoll, 1974
"It is probable that his love of rich chords & free-sounding harmonies came from Milhaud, especially from Milhaud's polytonal penchant for putting one chord in one hand & a different chord in the other."
- John Salmon

"Very good, Boo-Boo, but not what you have written."
- Darius Milhaud on his pupil Dave Brubeck's music.
📷 Brubeck & Milhaud with Michael Random in a shot by A. J. Edwards, 1940
Brubeck Collection @UOPacific

An uncredited 1946 photo from the Brubeck Collection
@UOPacific
Darius Milhaud proudly watches over his student Dave Brubeck, playing with a jazz group
"Everyone thought GIs were dumb," said Brubeck. "Fortunately for me, however, Darius Milhaud was not everyone."

Dave Brubeck, Cal Tjader & Ron Crotty, c. 1950
Tjader was a drummer with the Brubeck Octet, & added the vibes when the Brubeck Trio was formed.

Dave Brubeck by Andrew Zuckerman, 2000s
"Brubeck intertwined jazz swing with time-signatures that looked like algebra, and mingled standard song-forms with rondos and fugues."
- John Fordham

"Like Stravinsky says in The Poetics of Music, 'Composition is selective improvisation'. When we are on the stand we don't have time to be selective, it has got to happen instantaneously."
- Dave Brubeck on Willis Conover's Music USA
#VOA #Brubeck100
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The great Life photographer Gjon Mili made this short film "Stompin' For Mili" with Brubeck, Desmond, Bob Bates & Joe Dodge around 1954. Oddly, there seem to be no still photos of Brubeck & his quartet by Mili.

Dave Brubeck called himself "a composer who plays the piano."
Here he is playing the piano at the University of Pennsylvania.
Photo: Julian Wasser, 1955
Brubeck Collection @UOPacific

Have an ice cream sundae to celebrate Dave Brubeck's birthday! 🍨
Bob Willoughby's fun photo of Joe Morello, Eugene Wright, Dave Brubeck & Bill Smith for a 1960 LP.

Dave Brubeck by Bob Henriques, 1959

Henriques's photo was used on the cover of Dave Brubeck's 1963 album Bossa Nova USA. That's a 1960 Ford Sunliner convertible.