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Dave Brubeck's Music and Legacy: Jazz as a Language of Peace and Diplomacy at International House At UC Berkeley

Courtesy of Claire Power | Posted on June 30, 2015

Where

International House At UC Berkeley
2299 Piedmont Avenue
Berkeley, CA
Map
(510) 642-9460

When

Wed, July 22, 2015
7:00 pm

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Musicians

Simon Rowe
organ, Hammond B3

About

Simon Rowe - Piano; Executive Director of the Brubeck Institute
Melanie O'Reilly - Guest vocalist & MC for this event

The legendary Dave Brubeck believed in the power of music to transform lives as well as to enlighten and entertain. Dr Simon Rowe, Executive Director of The Brubeck Institute, will present talk-with music about the impact of Dave Brubeck on Twentieth Century Western culture. Beginning as a promising young jazz pianist, Dave’s 70 year journey brought him from the battlefields of WWII as an American GI, to concert hall stages around the world as composer, bandleader and jazz ambassador....

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