Comments on: Dave Brubeck https://lithoguru.com/life/?p=262 Musings of a Gentleman Scientist Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 By: Trey https://lithoguru.com/life/?p=262#comment-14290 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-14290 I too did a double take. For me it was when my grandparents heard me playing the intro riff to Take Five on the piano. (My piano skills are minimal, but the intro riff is not too bad.) My grandparent’s album collection has some country and bluegrass, but it also has a lot of classical music — no jazz that I can recall. So I was surprised, but not too surprised.

Dave Brubeck was very popular in the 1950s. Given that my grandparents would have been in their 30s at that time, and the iconic nature of the 5/4 beat, it’s even less surprising that they knew the song.

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