Bach-D. Brubeck
Bach-inspired Piano Works by Dave Brubeck

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Dave Brubeck - Short Biography

Works

Work

No.

Year

Jazz Quartet

Bach An' All, for Jazz quartet
In: Dave Brubeck/Bill Smith: “Brubeck-Smith: Near-Myth (William O. Smith, cl; Dave Brubeck, p; Gene Wright, b; Joe Morello (d) (Fantasy/OJC)

1961`

Piano

Chromatic Fantasy Sonata, inspired by J.S. Bach, for piano (incorporating the BACH motif)
[USA: Derry Music; Miami, Fla : [Distributed by] Warner Bros. Publications, 1994]

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1994

It is probably not too far afield to posit Milhaud and J.S. Bach as Brubeck’s most influential classical composers. While Glances is Dave’s most Milhaud-inspired piece, Chromatic Fantasy Sonata is surely his most Bachian. It is true that Brubeck’s earlier works like two-part Contention and Brandenburg Gate, pay tribute to the Baroque master. But Chromatic Fantasy Sonata with its reverences to Bach’s Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue in D minor (BWV 903) and use of chorale (2^nd movement), fugue (3^rd movement), and chaconne (4^th movement) reveal and indebtedness to Bach surely unique in Brubeck’s output. As if we needed any more proof, clear quotations of the B-A-C-H motif (the German names of the notes B-flat, A, C. and B-natural) emerge in the “Allegro motto” movement returning (often in altered inversion) in subsequent movement”.
Source: Seriously Brubeck: Original Music by Dave Brubeck, Introduction by John Salmon, p 7

Dave Brubeck's two-part adventures: original two-part arrangements
24 pieces for piano, inspired by J.S. Bach's two-part inventions:
Bach again
Brandenburg gate
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Brotherly love
Chasin' yourself
The crossing
Dancin' in rhythm
Do you know?
The eleven disciples
Fourth of July
Fujiyama
Guitarron
In a little Spanish town
Indian song
It's deja vu (all over again)
Joe Lovano tango
Planets are spinning
Polly
Stompin' for Mili
To a native son
Two-part contention
Upstage rhumba
When the moon is high
Winter ballad
[Miami, Fla.: Warner Bros., 1999.].

1999

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Prepared by Aryeh Oron (August 2011)

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