# Dave Brubeck died \[in 2012\] \[ed. title\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 9, 2016, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-brubeck-died-in-2012-ed-title/774311 "2016-12-09T22:13:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-brubeck-died-in-2012-ed-title/774311/1 "2016-12-09T22:13:41Z")
[He was 91. You’d think he’d have time to write another song.](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/arts/music/dave-brubeck-jazz-musician-dies-at-91.html) ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-brubeck-died-in-2012-ed-title/774311/2 "2016-12-09T22:15:03Z")
Oh man. Such wonderful music. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-brubeck-died-in-2012-ed-title/774311/3 "2016-12-09T22:29:09Z")
He passed away in 2012. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-brubeck-died-in-2012-ed-title/774311/4 "2016-12-09T22:35:07Z")
I had the pleasure of meeting and having a drink with Dave around 1967, when his quartet was playing at a North Beach dive in San Francisco. Several of us musicians in the “Fighting 22” Army Band drove over the bridge from Oakland to see him, and he sat with us during a break. He did mention his Army career, such as it was. I believe he had a brother, Howard Brubeck, who did some extremely accurate transcriptions of the solos from _Time Out_ and _Time Further Out_ albums for public sale. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-brubeck-died-in-2012-ed-title/774311/5 "2016-12-09T22:36:11Z")
How’s Generalissimo Francisco Franco doing? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-brubeck-died-in-2012-ed-title/774311/6 "2016-12-09T22:39:39Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > He passed away in 2012. > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > How’s Generalissimo Francisco Franco doing? [Shhhhh! The Maestro Is Decomposing!](http://www.fragrantica.com/news/Indole-The-Maestro-Is-Decomposing-8000.html) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-brubeck-died-in-2012-ed-title/774311/7 "2016-12-09T22:39:53Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > He passed away in 2012. Holy crap. Why’d this suddenly show up on my feed? [Emily Litella]Never mind.[/Emily Litella] ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-brubeck-died-in-2012-ed-title/774311/8 "2016-12-09T22:41:07Z")
Well, thank goodness there’s something we don’t have to blame on 2016! Years ago, his son opened a jazz club in San Luis Obispo called (what else?) Brubeck’s. Periodically, Dave would drop in at random and jam with whatever musicians were scheduled that night. I was privileged to be there one evening when this happened. What a memorable night. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-brubeck-died-in-2012-ed-title/774311/9 "2016-12-09T22:47:31Z")
Fuuuck. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-brubeck-died-in-2012-ed-title/774311/10 "2016-12-09T22:50:16Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > I had the pleasure of meeting and having a drink with Dave around 1967, when his quartet was playing at a North Beach dive in San Francisco. Several of us musicians in the “Fighting 22” Army Band drove over the bridge from Oakland to see him, and he sat with us during a break. He did mention his Army career, such as it was. > > I believe he had a brother, Howard Brubeck, who did some extremely accurate transcriptions of the solos from _Time Out_ and _Time Further Out_ albums for public sale. I’ve noted before that I had a nice chat with him in Moscow after he played a set for Reagan. This was long after his quartet split up, Paul Desmond had died and Joe Morello had gone blind (but was still teaching drums). Nice guy to take the time to chat with a nobody who has been a fan since the 60s. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-brubeck-died-in-2012-ed-title/774311/11 "2016-12-09T23:01:17Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Holy crap. Why’d this suddenly show up on my feed? [Emily Litella]Never mind.[/Emily Litella] :smack: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-brubeck-died-in-2012-ed-title/774311/12 "2016-12-09T23:04:10Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > He passed away in 2012. But 2016 sucks so bad that people are dying twice. :eek:🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-brubeck-died-in-2012-ed-title/774311/13 "2016-12-09T23:24:33Z")
Take eternity. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-brubeck-died-in-2012-ed-title/774311/14 "2016-12-09T23:47:48Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Holy crap. Why’d this suddenly show up on my feed? Seems to be a Facebook thing. Death notices of already deceased celebrities start circulating on the anniversaries of the death. Don’t be surprised if you start seeing R.I.P. messages for Ravi Shankar in a couple of days. (He also died in 2012; IIRC we got a flurry of death notices for him this time last year.) ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-brubeck-died-in-2012-ed-title/774311/15 "2016-12-10T00:07:40Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Seems to be a Facebook thing. Death notices of already deceased celebrities start circulating on the anniversaries of the death. Don’t be surprised if you start seeing R.I.P. messages for Ravi Shankar in a couple of days. (He also died in 2012; IIRC we got a flurry of death notices for him this time last year.) That happened to me with Neil Armstrong a couple of years ago. I almost made a post about it when I didn’t see one, but I thought something was wrong and looked at the date. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-brubeck-died-in-2012-ed-title/774311/16 "2016-12-10T02:01:02Z")
he’s not dead, he’s just Taking Five. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-brubeck-died-in-2012-ed-title/774311/17 "2016-12-10T02:47:42Z")
It was me! I dug Dave up and killed him again. There is a point in every young Jazzbo’s life where s/he is listening to a performance or a recording and they go OH MY GOD! I HEAR IT! I UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY’RE DOING! Many people never have this epiphany, and they NEVER understand jazz. My epiphany moment came when I was about 15 (in 1976) and was listening to a recording of the Brubeck Trio with Gerry Mulligan, the great baritone saxophonist, playing live in Berlin in 1972. The tune was Ellington’s “Thing’s Ain’t What They Used to Be.” My god. It’s on Youtube. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lONr3ohcnhg/maxresdefault.jpg "Things Ain't What They Used To Be (Live)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lONr3ohcnhg) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-brubeck-died-in-2012-ed-title/774311/18 "2016-12-10T14:03:38Z")
[Moderating] I have edited the title to reflect that this is old news. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-brubeck-died-in-2012-ed-title/774311/19 "2016-12-10T15:20:45Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > My god. It’s on Youtube. > > [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lONr3ohcnhg](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lONr3ohcnhg) It says that the video is no longer available. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-brubeck-died-in-2012-ed-title/774311/20 "2016-12-10T18:01:17Z")
Saw him and Ramsey Lewis at Jazz at Lincoln Center in NYC in 2008. Probably one of his last concerts. Quite amazing. I’m practicing Take Five (Paul Desmond composition) on the piano -fun stuff. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-brubeck-died-in-2012-ed-title/774311.md?page=2)