Darius Brubeck

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Darius Brubeck

David Darius Brubeck (born June 14, 1947 in San Francisco , California ) is an American jazz musician ( keyboard , composition, arrangements) and music teacher.

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Brubeck is the oldest son of the jazz legend Dave Brubeck and named after his teacher Darius Milhaud . As a child and adolescent he received piano lessons, in 1962 composition lessons with Milhaud, and then graduated from Mills College . He graduated from Wesleyan University . In the early 1970s he played with Don McLean and Larry Coryell and in the group Two Generations of Brubeck with his father and brothers Chris and Dan (several albums and international tours 1972 to 1975). After that he belonged to the New Brubeck Quartet until 1978 and led the fusion band Gathering Forces . From 1983 to 2006 he lived in Durban , South Africa . There he was professor and director of the Center for Jazz and Popular Music at the University of Natal . In 1987 he performed with the guitarist Sandile Shange at the Montreux Jazz Festival ; For fifteen years he led the band Afro Cool Concept (with saxophonist Barney Rachabane , bassist Victor Ntoni or Bongani Sokhela and drummer Lulu Gontsana), which was touring internationally. At the North Sea Jazz Festival he presented the South African National Youth Jazz Band, which he leads . In 2009 he replaced his father at a concert when it was canceled due to illness. In the same year he played with his Darius Brubeck Quartet in Great Britain, where he also performed in a duo with Georgia Mancio .

He taught at the Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi in Istanbul in 2007 and at the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj (Romania) in 2010.

Discographic notes

  • Dave Brubeck Brother, the Great Spirit Made Us All (1974, with Perry Robinson , Jerry Bergonzi , Peter Ruth, Chris Brubeck, Dave Powell, Dan Brubeck)
  • Larry Coryell and the Brubeck Brothers Better Than Live! (1978)
  • Tugela Rail and Other Tracks (1990–2003, with Barney Rachabane, Chris Merz, Zim Ngqawana , Mark Kilian, Brendan Jury, Concord Nkabinde, Victor Ntoni, Bongani Sokhela, Lulu Gonstsana, Kevin Gibson, Manjith Singh, Deepak Ram)
  • Still on My Mind (with Afro Cool Concept , 2003)
  • Live in Poland (2020), with Dave O'Higgins, Matt Ridley, Wesley Gibbens

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SURNAME Brubeck, Darius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brubeck, David Darius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , California