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Count me in
Recently I was listening to the Teaching Company's "Understanding the Fundamentals of Music" with my children. As part of this experience, the lecturer Robert Greenberg talked about Dave Brubeck and how much he admired him. Brubeck does something called compound meter in some of his works. It's too much to describe here, but it got me interested so I ordered the "Dave Brubeck -- for all time" CD collection a couple of weeks ago.
The Dave Brubeck quartet in 1951.
Who knew it?
I just got the disks this week. I've been listening over the past few days. I only have one word ---
Wow.
Sign me up, give me the ball, put me in the game, coach. These guys can kick butt. This is the best music I've listened to in a few years. The bad stuff is great classical jazz.
The good stuff goes beyond what I would consider music. I could say that is almost white noise, but that misses the point. It is uber-music -- harmonic melodies and rhythms that work on a level that Jazz never reaches. It's beautiful in a way that a smart math kid is beautiful -- it shows us how much farther we can go with music than we have so far. When I listen to the pop bands of today playing basically the same slop I heard 30 years ago, I despair. Dave Brubeck and his gang have showed me that music has some really cool new places to go to. Awesome!
This is the CD collection I received last week
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