Dave Brubeck, jazz great, dead at 91
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | December 6, 2012 12:58Jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such as “Take Five” caught listeners’ ears with exotic, challenging rhythms, has died. He was 91.
Brubeck died Wednesday morning of heart failure after being stricken while on his way to a cardiology appointment with his son Darius, said his manager Russell Gloyd.
Gloyd told NBC News that Brubeck’s son noticed that something was wrong with his father on the way to the doctor’s appointment, called 911 while en route, and the two were met by medical personnel at the hospital.
Brubeck had a career that spanned almost all American jazz since World War II. He formed The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1951 and was the first modern jazz musician to be pictured on the cover of Time magazine — on Nov. 8, 1954.
Brubeck would have turned 92 on Thursday.
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