The eldest Brubeck son performs the classic 'Time Out' in full, along with some of his own work in South African jazz at London's biggest jazz venue.
Dave Brubeck, the first jazz artist to feature on the cover of Time Magazine, whose quartet is responsible for possibly the most recognisable jazz tune of all time, ‘Take Five’ (even if Paul Desmond composed it and played lead sax on the studio recording), and known for this efforts in cool jazz and playfulness with time signatures, was one of jazz's elder statesmen.
Though criticised in his day - by Miles Davis for having no swing, Mort Sahl for saying his music belongs in Disneyland - there was a brief period on this Earth where Brubeck was the coolest thing on it.
Brubeck's eldest, Darius, has long been an adventurous jazz musician, spending cumulative decades in South Africa experimenting with hybrids, forming five student/staff bands, the initial one being the first multi-racial student jazz band from a South African university (in 1988 no less). Performing continually since the 60s, and becoming an expert in ethnomusicology in the meantime, the elder Brubeck son is yet to receive his flowers, being one of jazz's most hard-working, most underrated acts.
Performing the iconic Time Out record in full, Darius Brubeck also has a second act on the night where he will be performing a range of South African jazz tunes along with two features guests: acclaimed trumpeter Byron Wallen, and original Jazzanian guitarist Andrew Eagle.
For jazz fans and jazz historians, this will be a special one.