The EMQ is best known for their tribute to Dave Brubeck and performance of many Eric Mintel originals. Featuring pianist and composer Eric Mintel, Nelson Hill sax/flute, Jack Hegyi bass and Dave Mohn drums. Two performances at the White House by invitation of President’s Bill Clinton (1998) and Barack Obama (2011), several concerts at the Kennedy Center, a special concert at the United Nations and countless accolades, the Eric Mintel Quartet have been thrilling audiences of all ages with their electrifying jazz for over 25 years. Eric’s goals of bringing an understanding of jazz to the masses has connected on many different levels both Nationally and Internationally. His piano style and his quartet have been compared to that of the great Dave Brubeck. Pianist and composer, Eric Mintel has brought his own energetic and lyrical style of jazz to audiences of all ages for more than 20 years. Jazz Legend Dave Brubeck has said ” As long the music attracts dedicated young musicians like Eric Mintel, Jazz will continue to thrive and progress as a voice of freedom”. ![]() “Take Five” is the biggest-selling jazz single ever.TWO CONCERTS NIGHTLY ~ 6:30 PM and 9:00 PM The classically-trained Brubeck used exotic meters he had heard overseas to deviate from the regular 4/4 time. The 1959 “Take Five” hit recorded by the Dave Brubeck Quartet is a solo battle between saxophonist Paul Desmond and summer Joe Morello with Brubeck's piano serving as a narrator and bassist Eugene Wright adding a scene. “So he's come full circle,” Chris Brubeck said.īrubeck is largely credited for helping spark the Cool Jazz, or West Coast Jazz, movement. Dave Brubeck would say the first record he ever bought was by Waller. It also contains original pieces he wrote for his longtime wife, Iola, and an interpretation of “When It’s Sleepy Time Down South” by Fats Waller. The latest release includes an interpretation of George Gershwin's “Summertime” from the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess, the 1913 “Danny Boy,” and “Over the Rainbow" from the 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz.” “Even though this may seem like a stretch when I hear this particular performance, it just slays me because there’s just so much unbelievable wisdom in each of his fingers, how he approaches the notes and the touch.” ![]() “He knew thousands of songs from playing in nightclubs and the cowboy jazz bands he joined as a kid,” Brubeck said. “Dave was mainly thinking of it as a sort of documentation and gift for immediate family and some close family friends,” said Chris Brubeck, his son, who is also a jazz musician and plays multiple instruments but mainly electric bass and trombone.Īnd there the recordings would have stayed until someone at Verve Records heard a song for the collection and thought it would be great to make it available to the public, the younger Brubeck said. 6 in the latest effort by a label to preserve unreleased jazz recordings. Verve Records announced last week that “Lullabies” - a collection of intimate standards often played for children - will be available Nov. RIO RANCHO, N.M, - Nearly eight years after his death, the final solo recording of late American jazz pianist legend Dave Brubeck is set for release next month.
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