It's too bad that he wasn't known very well among my generation. However, maybe it is better that way, for in my generation the only folks familiar with his work were probably musicians, and thus these musicians where by nature more fully able to appreciate his music. I have often thought that when I have gone to a stadium show full of tone deaf folks that there is something seriously missing, such as it is as if the show is more about the beer than the music.
Brubeck of course was a much better musician than any musician (except hired guns that are there to play a really simple parts for the masses of the tone deaf) that I have known to play a stadium. That Brubeck probably never had to play a stadium is to his credit.
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