nprmusic: Just one day shy of 92, David Brubeck has died. We are working on a proper obit for the jazz pianist, but the meantime, download a one-hour documentary on the man who made “Take Five” and “Blue Rondo a la Turk” such enduring standards. Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images I can report that everyone in Carnegie Hall last night thought of Brubeck and smiled for a moment when Chucho Valdés ever so briefly quoted Take Five.

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Just one day shy of 92, David Brubeck has died. We are working on a proper obit for the jazz pianist, but the meantime, download a one-hour documentary on the man who made “Take Five” and “Blue Rondo a la Turk” such enduring standards.

Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

I can report that everyone in Carnegie Hall last night thought of Brubeck and smiled for a moment when Chucho Valdés ever so briefly quoted Take Five.

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    RIP, DB
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    truly, deeply saddened to hear this earlier this morning. r.i.p., dave.
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    :ccc
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    NOOOOOO
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    RIP Dave Brubeck
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    Argh! For a couple of years now I’ve wondered when this day would come every time I listened to his music. Music that’s...
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    RIP to a legend.

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