Per a Ken Jennings Tweet, two Dave Brubeck Quartet recordings feature in the "Silver Linings Playbook" soundtrack - "Unsquare Dance" and "Maria"
I had the good fortune to see him play in Washington in April of 2011. The only perceptible concessions to age were the length of the set and the oxygen tank in close proximity. He was quite pleased to relate that he hadn't needed it that day. Safe Home David >________________________________ > From: Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 5:07 PM >Subject: [TV orNotTV] SemiNoTV: Dave Brubeck Dies at 91 > > >The groundbreaking jazz pianist and composer, whose left-field 1959 hit "Take >Five" is still arguably one of the few "real" jazz recordings played on >"smooth jazz" radio, has been heard on television over the years, including >writing music for an episode of the 1989 Peanuts animated mini-series "This is >America Charlie Brown" and supposedly writing and performing the theme song >for the original 1967 ABC version of the game show "Supermarket Sweep," >something that would seem to be completely at odds with someone of his >intellectual heft--Billboard link includes videos of "Take Five" and "Blue >Rondo a la Turk," another cut from his classic "Time Out" album: > > >http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/genre/jazz/dave-brubeck-jazz-composer-pianist-dead-1008038032.story > -- > -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
