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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>A strikes me as bit ironic that you opened your note with ”Nil nisi bono de mortuis,” Bill (essentially “do not speak ill of the dead,” I gather). Brubeck certainly had his share of critics throughout his career. But he’s a musician and a human being, after all, and I think we might let him rest in peace today.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444'>James K. Wright, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Associate Professor &<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Supervisor of Performance Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444'>School for Studies in Art & Culture: Music<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444'>A817 Loeb Building, Carleton University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444'>1125 Colonel By Drive<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Email: <a href="mailto:James_Wright@carleton.ca"><span style='color:#0066CC'>James_Wright@carleton.ca</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Telephone : (613) 520-2600 (ext. 3734)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Fax : (613) 520-3905<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> f_minor [mailto:f_minor-bounces@glenngould.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Anita Monroe<br><b>Sent:</b> December-05-12 4:16 PM<br><b>To:</b> Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [f_minor] Take Five<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I've NEVER thought of Dave Brubeck in that way. I first heard him live here in Clemson in 1955 and really enjoyed hearing him. I liked his <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>rhythms and complications. I heard him again in Key West in the late 80's and he was even better. I guess all of us have different opinions.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Anita<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:56 PM, David Pelletier <<a href="mailto:promonde@aol.com" target="_blank">promonde@aol.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Gee, how PC are you?<br><br>Sent from my iPhone<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On Dec 5, 2012, at 2:58 PM, "Robert Merkin" <<a href="mailto:bobmerk@earthlink.net" target="_blank">bobmerk@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Nil nisi bono de mortuis.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Beyond his freakish finger span -- I think he could play a 12th -- Brubeck filled a very undistinguished niche in jazz. He produced a "safe," unsurprising product that white college-educated audiences felt comfortable consuming. It was also "television safe" because with very few exceptions, USA commercial networks took decades to broadcast African-American (Negroes in those days) artists. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>(Only Hefner's "Playboy After Dark" featured integrated or black jazz artists; it was a syndicated show never broadcast in the racially segregated South.)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>With his "revolutionary" and whack time signatures, Brubeck's work was European//classically sophisticated -- but soulless. He seemed to view improvisation -- the heart of jazz -- as a slovenly embarrassment; there's not a measure of improvisation in his super-selling breakthrough albums.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>That's why saxophonist Paul Desmond deserted the DB Quartet. He knew Brubeck wasn't playing jazz and never would. Desmond and Gerry Mulligan were the only white contemporaries of Brubeck who "got it," who seamlessly recorded with black artists.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I'm sorry to say that in the USA 1950s, genuine, historical-roots black jazz and R&B scared white Americans. It was spontaneous, energetic, exciting, thrilling, and worst of all, highly sexual, its sexual references only thinly veiled with puns and jokes. That didn't matter until the 1960s, because none of the major recording labels would touch black artists; their brilliant (and naughty) work got its limited airplay and sales on "race" labels sold only in the black ghettos.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Brubeck got all that airplay and filled stadiums because his stuff wasn't very challenging, contained references to respectable classical music, and didn't frighten white kids (or their parents who snooped to hear what the kids were listening to).</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Brubeck didn't invent this niche. In previous decades, Paul Whiteman (and no white man was more aptly named) sanitized George Gershwin's jazz derivitives for white audiences, and in the '40s Benny Goodman did the same. Goodman actually featured African-American musicians in his band (I don't think Glenn Miller did).</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>It's easy to blame the big labels and radio and television networks as the villains of this sad American history, but it was the timidity and conformity of white consumers which did most of the harm. (It was rock's "scholars" like the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and the early Beatles who re-discovered historical African-American jazz and blues for white audiences.) </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Europeans weren't so timid. During the Nazi era, Germans (Berliners mostly) braved the concentration camp to smuggle in black American jazz records, and during the Soviet era Eastern Europeans would risk the gulags to listen to their beloved jazz. This was, after all, depraved and decadent Western music.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I've often wondered if I'd have the guts to risk prison to listen to my favorite music. But for decades thousands did -- and I suspect in some "Great Firewall" places, people still do.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Bob</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Massachusetts USA</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>----- Original Message ----- <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#E4E4E4'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:Kpapademas@aol.com" target="_blank" title="Kpapademas@aol.com">Kpapademas@aol.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org" target="_blank" title="f_minor@glenngould.org">f_minor@glenngould.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Wednesday, December 05, 2012 12:31 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> [f_minor] Take Five<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The passing of Dave Brubeck, 91 years old!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-dave-brubeck-dead-20121205,0,7126256.column" target="_blank">http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-dave-brubeck-dead-20121205,0,7126256.column</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Take Five!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=faJE92phKzI" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=faJE92phKzI</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>K<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></blockquote></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>