Darius Brubeck
David Darius Brubeck ( born June 14, 1947 in San Francisco, California) is an American jazz musician (keyboards, composition, arrangements ) and music educator.
Life and work
Brubeck is the eldest son of jazz legend Dave Brubeck and named after his teacher Darius Milhaud. As a child and teenager, he studied piano, composition lessons with Milhaud in 1962, then to complete the Mills College. He received his degree he makes at Wesleyan University. In the early 1970s he played with Don McLean and Larry Coryell and in the Group Two Generations of Brubeck with his father and his brothers Chris and Dan (several albums and international tours from 1972 to 1975 ). After that, he was a member until 1978, the New Brubeck Quartet and led the fusion band Gathering Forces. From 1983 to 2006 he lived in Durban, South Africa. There he worked as a professor and head of the Centre for Jazz and Popular Music at the University of Natal. In 1987, he joined with guitarist Sandile Shange at the Montreux Jazz Festival; fifteen years, he led the band Afro Cool Concept ( with saxophonist Barney Rachabane, bassist Victor Ntoni or Bongani Sokhela and drummer Lulu Gontsana ), which was internationally on tour. At the North Sea Jazz Festival, he presented the he led South African National Youth Jazz Band. In 2009, he replaced his father at a concert, as this turned out due to illness. With its Darius Brubeck Quartet, he played in the same year in the UK, where he performed in a duo with Georgia Mancio.
Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi At the Istanbul 2007 he taught at the Babeş -Bolyai University of Cluj (Romania ), 2010.
Disco Graphical Notes
- Larry Coryell and the Brubeck Brothers Better Than Live! (1978)
- Tugela Rail and Other Tracks (1990-2003, with Barney Rachabane, Chris Merz, Zim Ngqawana, Mark Kilian, Brendan Jury, Concord Nkabinde, Victor Ntoni, Bongani Sokhela, Lulu Gonstsana, Kevin Gibson, Manjith Singh, Deepak Ram )
- Still on My Mind ( with Afro Cool Concept, 2003)