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And, in 2009, he was bestowed a Kennedy Center Honor, one of the United States' most prestigious awards recognizing outstanding achievement in the performing arts.

The Dave Brubeck Quartet's 1959 album Time Out broke new ground by incorporating uneven time signatures and polytonality into a jazz framework—at once expanding the genre toward greater complexity and, paradoxically, making it more appealing to uninitiated listeners.

He was a Duke Ellington Fellow at Yale University, and was presented with the Sanford Medal by the Yale School of Music

In the year 2000 the National Endowment for the Arts declared Dave Brubeck a Jazz Master. So, where can his legacy go from here? It takes more intellectual pizzazz to understand what’s going on in jazz compared to ‘Louie Louie,’ so she said ‘OK, let’s bring jazz into this place where more intellectually engaged people are.’”

“Women are the arbiters of culture, and Brubeck clearly knew this because his relationship with his wife was a key portion of everything he was doing,” Free says.

Oh my God! But I thought he’s really cool. The U.S. State Department sponsored the Quartet’s performances in Poland, India, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq. She was his artistic collaborator, advocate, business manager, and constant companion. “I think they did the very best they could balancing family life with a career in the public eye.”

While Brubeck was often away on tour for extensive periods of time, he included his family in his musical excursions as much as possible.

To everyone’s surprise “Time Out” became the first jazz album to sell over a million copies and “Blue Rondo a la Turk” and “Take Five” (now in the Grammy Hall of Fame) began to appear on jukeboxes throughout the world.

Early in his career Brubeck wrote primarily for this Quartet, and some of those pieces, such as “In Your Own Sweet Way” and “The Duke” became part of standard jazz repertoire.

The cowboy opened his shirt to reveal a brand on his chest. “You can’t understand America without understanding jazz,” he stated during Brubeck’s 2009 Kennedy Center induction, “and you can’t understand jazz without understanding Dave Brubeck.”

“He’s a piece of Americana, like John Glenn or something, you know what I mean?” Chris Brubeck asks in his father’s ultra-modernist home where he related the emotional story to Ken Burns two decades ago.

He never once did anything to try to be popular or commercial.” And, yes, this even extends to you-know-what album: “Of course, Time Out was the most popular record he ever did, but he broke every rule. “You’d have a hard time trying to call Brubeck’s music unfocused or angry or whatever,” Free continues. Two different generations put together.”

Streisand added that the film’s director Anne Fletcher really pursued her, “which was nice.” Fletcher recently helmed the commercially successful, but pretty vapid romantic comedies “27 Dresses” and “The Proposition.” However, DAN FOGELMAN, 40, the writer of “Guilt Trip,” is a much better writer than the writers of those films.

“You know, the music also appealed to women, which is a key point because it was intelligent.

“Guilt Trip” is Streisand’s first co-starring role since “The Mirror Has Two Faces” in 1996. The following year Brubeck’s second major work “The Gates of Justice”, a cantata based on the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Old Testament, was also premiered by Kunzel in Cincinnati. Barack Obama even viewed him as the country he led in microcosm.

Already playing music professionally, he switched his major to music.