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Upon his graduation in 1942, Brubeck joined the army and was sent to Camp Hahn, in Riverside, California. Already, Brubeck showed signs of compositional genius, but, because he was unable to sight-read music, he was only allowed to graduate from the program if he promised never to teach piano.
PAUL DESMOND TAKE FIVE FREE
He entered the College of the Pacific on track for a degree in veterinary science, but in his first year, the head of the department told him that it was clear he belonged in the conservatory, where he spent all of his free time. His father decided that, since his two older brothers had chosen to become musicians, Dave would take over the family ranch. But to understand such an extraordinarily improbable 33-year partnership, we’d better go back to the beginning.ĭave Brubeck, born in December of 1920, was the son of a cattle rancher and his former concert pianist wife, one of three boys. An amphetamine-dependent, chain-smoking womanizer certainly doesn’t seem like the ideal partner for an (eventually) deeply Catholic, even-tempered family man. Probability says that Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond should have gotten along about as well as Tizol and Mingus. Far from it, as, for example, Charles Mingus learned when Duke Ellington demanded that he resign from the Ellington Orchestra for having chopped Juan Tizol’s chair in two with a fire ax in the middle of a performance after the trombonist pulled a knife on him. But that doesn’t mean that jazz musicians are always good at cooperating.
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