THE DEATH OF A
CONNECTICUT JAZZ LEGEND
YESTERDAY IN NORWALK BROUGHT
OUT MUSCIANS FROM ALL OVER TO
PLAY IN HIS HONOR TONIGHT AT
THE PALACE THEATER IN
WATERBURY. TODAY WOULD
HAVE BEEN DAVE BRUBECK'S 92ND
BIRTHDAY. IT JUST SO
HAPPENED A BENEFIT HAD LONG
SINCE BEEN PLANNED AT THE
THEATER FOR BRUBECK'S
DAUGHTER'S CHARITY CALLED"
JAZZ-4-LIFE"...THE EVENT
TURNED INTO A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE
FOR A MAN WHO GAVE SO MUCH
THROUGH THE YEARS TO MUSIC.
(NAT SOUND)IT TURNS OUT IN HIS
COLLEGE YEARS IN CALIFORNIA,
BRUBECK FAKED HIS WAY THROUGH
MUSIC UNABLE TO READ IT THE
WAY OTHERS DID. HE GRADUATED
BUT WAS TOLD NEVER TO TEACH
PIANO, THE REST IS HISTORY
AFTER FORMING HIS FIRST BAND
IN THE EARLY 1940'S.BRUBECK
HAD SIX CHILDREN, FIVE SONS
AND ONE DAUGHTER...ALL OF THE
SONS WOULD GO ON TO BE
MUSICIANS IN THEIR OWN RIGHT.
HE WAS MARRIED TO HIS WIFE,
IOLA FOR 70 YEARS....SHE WROTE
MANY OF THE LYRICS TO HIS
SONGS. HIS DAUGHTER CATHERINE
SHE TOLD ME HER DAD WROTE
SONGS FOR ALL OF HIS
CHILDREN.. AND GRAND CHILDREN.
I ASKED HER WHAT THE PROUDEST
MUSICAL MOMENT WAS FOR HIS
DAD, IT TURNS OUT THAT CAME IN
2009.T.C.16:07:24CATHERINE
BRUBECK YAGHSIZIAN/BRUBECK'S
DAUGHTER/"I THINK THE KENNEDY
CENTER AWARDS, THAT WAS HUGE,
THREE YEARS AGO AND I'M SO
GLAD HE WAS HEALTHY FOR THAT,
HE WENT DOWN TO WASHINGTON
D.C. AND HOB KNOBBED WITH
PRESIDENT OBAMA AND THE
CLINTONS AND ALL THAT AND THAT
WAS REALLY FUN FOR HIM.T.C.
16:07:40CATHERINE BRUBECK
YAGHSIZIAN/BRUBECK'S
DAUGFHTER/"DESCRIBE THE
VIBRANCY AROUND YOUR DAD, UM
WELL I CAN TELL YOU WHAT HE
TOLD ME ONCE IS, I SAID DAD
PEOPLE JUST LOVE YOU AND HE
SAID WELL ALWAYS CARRY
ATMOSPHERE THAT YOU WANT WITH
YOU, THEN EVERY WHERE YOU GO,
IT WILL BE THERE, AND I'M LIKE
THAT'S A GOOD IDEA."(END ON
DAVE BRUBECK, ON THE DAY OF
HIS DEATH RECEIVED A
POSTHUMOUS GRAMMY AWARD
NOMINATION IN THE BEST
INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION
CATEGORY FOR A SYMPHONIC PIECE
INSPIRED BY ANSEL ADAMS'
ICONIC BLACK-AND-WHITE
PHOTOGRAPHS. BRUBECK
RECEIVED A GRAMMY LIFETIME
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD IN 1996, BUT
HAD NEVER WON A GRAMMY IN A
