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The best of Dave Brubeck: Five essential albums that aren’t Time Out
With Time Out, the Dave Brubeck Quartet helped shape the sound of their era. Here are five deeper cuts that you need to hear.
By David Basskin IISG
Few jazz artists are better known than Dave Brubeck by fellow musicians, by jazz aficionados and by the public at large.
The 1959 record
Time Out stands as one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time. Along with Miles Davis’s
Kind of Blue, the Dave Brubeck Quartet and their long run of successful albums on Columbia formed the signature sound of the late 1950s and early ’60s.
Lucky Clark On Music: Noel Paul Stookey
Legendary folk singer-songwriter’s new album ‘Just Causes’ to benefit 15 nonprofits.
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Noel Paul Stookey Photo by Sarah Coale
Not all that long ago, back on the 4th of November of last year, to be exact, I chatted with Noel Paul Stookey (the Paul of Peter, Paul & Mary, the legendary folk trio formed the ’60s) concerning a livestreamed performance at Merrill Auditorium. But when I discovered that he was going to release a special album on the March 22 titled “Just Causes,” I wanted to find out all I could about it. It is comprised of 15 Stookey songs each one addressing a social concern; each track has been remixed and remastered by John Stuart and Stookey has paired each one with a designated nonprofit organization that will benefit from the album’s net proceeds. He called me from his summer home in California (he recently went over there from Blue Hill after he and his wife got their vaccine shots) and I asked him how h
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Last time I asked you if you thought Cubs legend Anthony Rizzo would still be with the team in 2022, after Rizzo announced that he wouldn’t listen to new offers now that the season was underway. A full 58% of you feel that the Cubs and Rizzo will work it out in the end and Rizzo will still be manning first base next season.