Dave Brubeck: Improvisations and Compositions : The Idea of Cultural Exchange 
Subtitle: With Discography
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: September 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780820420035
Subjects: Composers & musicians; Composition & orchestration; Popular Music; Biography / Autobiography; Literary Criticism; USA; Composers & Musicians - Jazz; Brubeck, Dave; Criticism and interpretation; Discography
Description: "The pianist and composer Dave Brubeck represents the idea of cultural exchange as a basis for musical inter-cultural communication. He combines European concert music, as well as so-called non-European music, with acculturated jazz music. He also has a special interest in the integration of improvisation and composition. Occupying a large innovative space in Brubeck's sonoric harmonies are block chords, and, in the metric-rhythmic sphere, the "time experiments" with asymmetrical rhythms. "Essentially I'm a composer who plays the piano" (Brubeck). This book is a detailed survey of his improvisations, compositions and recordings."-- Publisher's description.