Dave Brubeck and His Jazz
"Take Five", the smoky instrumental by the Dave Brubeck Quartet(四重奏), was a
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(music) milestone—a deceptively (似是而非地) complex jazz composition that introduces a new,
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(adventure) sound to millions of
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(listen). In a career that spanned almost of American jazz since World War II, Brubeck"s celebrated quartet combined exotic (异国情调的),
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(challenge) tempos (拍子) with classical influences to create
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(last) standards.
Brubeck combined classical influences and his own
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(innovate) on the seminal 1959 album "Time Out" by his classic quartet. It was the first jazz album to
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(deliberate) explore time signatures outsides of the standard 4/4 beat or 3/4 waltz time. He was also the first modern jazz
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(music) pictured on the cover of "Time" magazine—on Nov. 8, 1954.
His experience in World War Ⅱ let him look beyond jazz and compose some other
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(extend) works touching on themes involving
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(religious), civil rights and peace. In a 2010 interview, Brubeck said," If there is a heaven, let it be a good place for all of us to jam together and have a wonderful musical experience."