FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Montreal Jazz Festival Honors Dave Brubeck

The Festival International de Jazz de Montreal honors Smokey Robinson, The Manhattan Transfere, Sonny Rollins, Richard Bona, Herman Leonard, Don Thompson and presents a special award to Dave Brubeck. Before Dave Brubeck, jazz was essentially an East Coast affair: New Orleans, Chicago, New York... Enter a pianist, in late '40s San Francisco, who would defy all conventions, integrating counterpoint, improvisation and polyphony in his distinctive style, with arrangements that would become his trad...

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