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A legend indeed, I loved seeing him live especially because you could tell he loved playing as much as the audience loved listening. No going through the motions. My grandfather was a jazz guy in Oakland and played/jammed with him a few times and that only cemented his admiration for him. He would light up about Brubeck when he and my dad would talk jazz- it was cool to be the ignorant fly on the wall as a kid and seeing and feeling the enthusiasiam for jazz vicariously through them before I started listening to it on my own.
Brubecks physical presence will be missed for sure but his influence and recordings etched as tasty phonic groves in vinyl will live on. I will spin the vinyl for my daughter so she can get hooked.
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