Brubeck

American  

[broo-bek] / ˈbru bɛk /

noun

1. David Warren Dave, 1920–2012, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.

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Brubeck British  

/ ˈbruːbɛk /

noun

1. Dave . 1920–2012, US modern jazz pianist and composer; formed his own quartet in 1951

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Example Sentences

Another pianist, Dave Brubeck, spent more than one summer in residence there with his family, teaching at the short-lived but influential Lenox School of Jazz—the same program that jolted the jazz establishment in 1959 by cultivating a pair of brash young originals, the saxophonist Ornette Coleman and the trumpeter Don Cherry, joint heralds of an incipient avant-garde.

From The Wall Street Journal

But his life changed in 1956 when he heard his first jazz record, Take Five by the American musician Dave Brubeck, and abandoned his studies.

From BBC

“It’s going to discourage apprentices to enroll in these programs,” said Ben Brubeck, vice president of regulatory, labor and state affairs for Associated Builders and Contractors, whose chapters provide apprenticeship programs.

From Seattle Times

He also painted covers for albums by jazz artists including Thelonious Monk, Art Tatum and Dave Brubeck.

From New York Times

And so, for more than a decade, some of the country’s most famous musicians—Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Benny Goodman, among others—went on “Jazz Ambassador” tours, for weeks or months at a time, through the Middle East, South America, Asia, and the Soviet bloc.

From Slate