SMITH: You had some critics giving you a hard time -- this whole thing about West Coast jazz ... some of the critics. DAVE: Maybe, but we had a lot of critics on our side. I mean all you have ...

This new sound, dubbed "West Coast Jazz," or "West Coast Cool," generated both excitement and controversy - and Dave Brubeck and his music were at the center of it all. Here jazz historian Ted ...

The communist regime had banned jazz music, a symbol of the West. So the arrival of the Dave Brubeck Quartet in Poland in 1958 was ... And, my son Darius was on this side of me on the treble clef side ...

By KIRSTEN BOLTON FOR ARTSPRING Dave Brubeck’s game-changing 1959 album Time Out is an American masterpiece of “west coast cool jazz” that resonates to this day. The odd time signatures, […] ...