BY MICHAEL HAMAD, mhamad@courant.com - CTNOW
1:15 p.m. EDT, July 28, 2014
As a composer, Chris Brubeck — bassist, trombone player and the late Dave Brubeck's son — always had an affinity for working with orchestras and exploring the boundaries between classical music and jazz, what Gunther Schuller dubbed the "Third Stream."
"I think a lot of that was witnessing my father working with Leonard Bernstein," Brubeck says. "It was a natural thing for me."
Brubeck's father, the famed composer of "Blue Rondo à la Turk" and other jazz classics who passed away in 2012 at the age of 91, studied composition with French modernist Darius Milhaud in the late 1940s. Chris never studied composition in a formal setting, which frees him up to write in a non-academic style. That "blissful ignorance," as Brubeck calls it, has led to commissions and performances with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra and other major classical music organizations.
"Honestly, I'm fortunate because I'm the composer who does it by the seat of my pants," Brubeck says. "Every time I write a piece, someone hears it and says, 'Oh, would you write a piece for me?'"
With the Brubeck Brothers Quartet — Chris on bass and trombone, his brother Dan Brubeck on drums, guitarist Mike DeMicco and pianist Chuck Lamb — he's performed with orchestras across the globe and has several acclaimed recordings. They'll play a free show on the New Haven Green on Saturday, Aug. 2, at 7:30 p.m., sharing a bill with the NHSO Jazz Sextet (who'll perform at 6 p.m.).
At one point, Brubeck explained, the quartet avoided playing his father's music.
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