Dave Brubeck, a giant of American music who was largely responsible for turning modern jazz into pop music, died Wednesday a day short of his 92nd birthday. He was an ever-adventurous composer ...

In 1961, Dave Brubeck told Ralph Gleason on the TV program Jazz Casual that jazz had lost some of its adventurous qualities. He said it wasn't challenging the public rhythmically the way it had in ...

Dave Brubeck died of heart failure on the morning of Wed., Dec. 5, 2012; just a day before his 92nd birthday, in Norwalk, Conn.

Columbia executives blocked its release for nearly a year — until label President Goddard Lieberson intervened. "They said, 'We never put out music that people can't dance to, and they can't ...

Long before his death in 2012, the legacy of the jazz pianist Dave Brubeck was often reduced, in popular conversation, to his biggest album, “Time Out,” and its ageless hit, “Take Five.” ...

In his seven-decade career, Dave Brubeck was both an artistic and a commercial success, a pianist and composer who expanded the musical landscape and who crossed other borders as one of the world ...

Dave Brubeck changed the sound of jazz in profound ways, unexpectedly becoming something of a pop star in the process. Starting in the mid-1950s, in fact, he emerged as a symbol of jazz in America ...

Dave Brubeck’s muse kept him company right up until the end. And eight years after his death on Dec. 5, 2012 — just one day shy of his 92nd birthday — the Concord-born pianist and composer ...

When Dave Brubeck was discharged from the army after World War II, his dad presented him with a $1,000 war bond as a welcome-home gift. The jazz pianist used the modest nest egg to purchase a ...

Dave Brubeck, the jazz pianist, composer and bandleader behind the legendary Dave Brubeck Quartet, has died at age 91. The death of Brubeck, whose quartet performed “Take Five,” which became a ...