only integrated musical unit in the military dur- ing the war.
After the war, Brubeck did graduate work
at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., with Mil- haud and wrote and performed avant-garde jazz. Based in San Francisco early in his career,
he worked for low pay and scrounged for dented cans of food that he could buy at a discount. “We lived in a tin, corrugated one-room
shack with no windows,” he told the Washing- ton Post in 2008. “We were so broke, God al- mighty.” Just when Brubeck began to develop a fol-
lowing, he damaged his spinal cord and several vertebrae while diving in the surf in Hawaii in 1951. He said emergency workers in the am- bulance described him as a “DOA” — dead on arrival. He recovered and continued playing, al- though he had residual nerve pain in his hands for years. Realizing he couldn’t handle the burden of being the sole leader of a group, he reached out to Desmond, whose dry, lyrical style on alto saxophone was a bracing contrast to Brubeck’s vigorous approach on the piano. Drummer Joe Morello joined the quartet
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in 1956, followed by Wright in 1958, forming a group that recorded dozens of records and found international acclaim. Despite the challenging nature of Brubeck’s music, with its unusual rhythmic patterns and sometimes unfamiliar tunes, his quartet had a huge following until it split up in 1967.”You could hardly find a less likely formula for popu- larity,” Gioia, the author of “West Coast Jazz,” wrote in an e-mail. “Brubeck, by all definitions, was a fringe within a fringe. Despite all this, he managed to achieve a rare degree of fame and popularity. How did he pull this off? Mostly through the sheer brilliance and audacity of his musical vision.” Brubeck began to write more symphonic and sacred music,
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see anew In 1996 Brubeck received a Grammy Award for lifetime achieve-
ment. He was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2009. When he reached his 80s, Brubeck stopped traveling overseas.
then toured with a quartet that included baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan. The original quartet had occasional reunions before Des- mond’s death in 1977, and Brubeck often performed with his musi- cal sons — Dan, Darius, Chris and Matthew. Another son, Michael Brubeck, died in 2009. In the early 1980s, Brubeck formed a new quartet, with which
he toured until shortly before his death. Even in his final years, when he was physically frail, he exuded energy at the keyboard. A solo piano recording from 2007, “Indian Summer,” won many awards and was considered one of his finest albums.
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But if his jazz diplomacy could help unite superpowers, it could also bring families together. In 1971, Brubeck gave a concert in Honolulu that marked,
President Obama wrote in one of his books, the last time he ever saw his father. When Brubeck received his Kennedy Center award at the White
House in 2009, Obama recalled that concert and said, “You can’t understand American without understanding jazz, and you can’t un- derstand jazz without understanding Dave Brubeck.”
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