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KGO's Jim Eastmond's favorite Jazz Musician Dave Brubeck dies.

MC said:
Eastmond used Brubeck's "take 5" as his theme music for a time ..it was Jazz that was acceptable to very old white people I guess. Brubeck was one of the Bay Area's own.
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No, Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond were in the vanguard of a "college jazz" movement in the early 1960s. "Take Five" remains the highest-rated pure jazz tune to score high on the pop charts in the past 50 years.

Brubeck was one of the most fascinating jazz composers ever. For instance, on that same "Take Five" album there's a song called "Kathy's Waltz" that is written in two different time signatures simultaneously.
 
I remember "Take Five" as being very accessible to my very young white pre-teen ears back in the late '60s! And I listened to the album this morning on my iPod, which all the hip middle-aged white people do these days....

I think the song was used in the '60s/'70s in a TV PSA, possibly to get people to stop smoking.
 
I WAS WATCHING AN old Perry Masson TV show from the early 60's. It had a Jazz theme to the episode and Mason mentioned "Dave Brubeck"... As the article says Brubeck went to university of the Pacific in Stockton and Mills College. I guess Mills was Coed at that time.

I would think that Easton liked old music, but i could be wrong. <aybe he was young once, although I doubt it. hah ha
 
MC said:
Brubeck was one of the Bay Area's own.
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Absolutely. Paul Desmond was born in San Francisco, and Brubeck grew up nearby.

They typified the west coast sound that was exploding at that time. Folks like Stan Kenton.

This has me thinking about the late great Joel Dorn, who put together a Desmond anthology.

Many late nights at the Keystone Corner.
 
Sorry to nit-pick, but in various posts, the retired KGO and KSFO talk host is referred to as "Eastland," "Eastman," and now "Eastmond." Come on, people, all you have to do to get a name right is do a few seconds of Googling. It's Jim Eason - E-A-S-O-N. Pronounced "ee-sun."

And while I'm picking nits, the old TV show starring Raymond Burr was Perry Mason - M-A-S-O-N. Paul Masson was the vintner who would "sell no wine before its time."

Early talk radio stations used instrumentals as opening theme music. It doesn't necessarily mean Eason liked Brubeck any more than other talk hosts liked Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass- who were a the talk show theme music default in the 60s and 70s.
 
Thanks for the back up, Mr. Gordon - we posted at the same time.

"Take 5" was actually a Top 40 hit and was probably on every music radio station's playlist in 1966, except perhaps for classical stations. As David Kaye pointed out, it was probably one of maybe 4 or 5 jazz tunes that ever hit the pop charts.

I saw Brubeck just a couple of years ago at SF Jazz when he was still a spry 86 or something . He and his band were terrific.
 
Lkeller said:
"Take 5" was actually a Top 40 hit and was probably on every music radio station's playlist in 1966, except perhaps for classical stations.
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As was Girl From Ipanema, and it made Stan Getz a household name.
 
Lkeller said:
Sorry to nit-pick, but in various posts, the retired KGO and KSFO talk host is referred to as "Eastland," "Eastman," and now "Eastmond." Come on, people, all you have to do to get a name right is do a few seconds of Googling. It's Jim Eason - E-A-S-O-N. Pronounced "ee-sun."
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Uh, it's been a running gag all along. I'm sure Mr. Eastwood won't mind...
 
Eason would claim he was related to that football player back in the day, when he was winning. Sorry for the mix-up, I think I saw Brubuck at the Paul Masson winery up in the hills od Saratoga CA once.
 
TheBigA said:
Lkeller said:
"Take 5" was actually a Top 40 hit and was probably on every music radio station's playlist in 1966, except perhaps for classical stations.
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As was Girl From Ipanema, and it made Stan Getz a household name.
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Both are correct, but with clarifications to the "Take Five" info...

The Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Take Five" originally appeared on the 1959 album "Time Out" and became a hit single in 1961.
It peaked at #25 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart on 10/9/1961 and at #5 on Billboard's Easy Listening Chart.

Its many uses include being used as theme music on NBC's "Today Show" in the early 1960s.

Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto's "The Girl From Ipanema" appeared on the 1964 album "Getz/Gilberto" and reached #5 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart on 7/18-25/1964 and #1 on Billboard's Pop-Standard Singles Chart (as it was known at that particular time; it would revert back to being called "Middle-Road Singles" in October 1964 and would later become "Adult Contemporary").

"The Girl From Ipanema" won the Grammy Award for Record Of The Year for 1964 (awarded in 1965).
 
pjc1961 said:
The Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Take Five" originally appeared on the 1959 album "Time Out" and became a hit single in 1961.
It peaked at #25 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart on 10/9/1961 and at #5 on Billboard's Easy Listening Chart.
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There were two "Take Five" cuts; the 5+ minute album cut featuring the drum solo, and the 2+ minute radio/single version without the drum solo. The edit on the single is very noticeable, actually. I'm not sure if the single version has ever been re-released.

Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto's "The Girl From Ipanema" appeared on the 1964 album "Getz/Gilberto" and reached #5 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart on 7/18-25/1964 and #1 on Billboard's Pop-Standard Singles Chart (as it was known at that particular time; it would revert back to being called "Middle-Road Singles" in October 1964 and would later become "Adult Contemporary").

"The Girl From Ipanema" won the Grammy Award for Record Of The Year for 1964 (awarded in 1965).
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On the other hand, I wouldn't consider "Girl From Ipanema" to be jazz. Sure, Stan Getz and all, but it comes across to me as VERY pop, in fact, boringly so.
 
DavidKaye said:
On the other hand, I wouldn't consider "Girl From Ipanema" to be jazz. Sure, Stan Getz and all, but it comes across to me as VERY pop, in fact, boringly so.
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The purists will tell you that vocals make it pop. Which is why Take Five was so trailblazing for its time.

Getz often did Ipanema as an instrumental, and would jam for 20 minutes on it. That's jazz.
 
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