AWARD: A Special Award Among Many (Updated)

This afternoon preceding his 14th Montreal International Jazz Festival concert appearance, pianist Dave Brubeck was honored with a special issue of the festival's Miles Davis Award, which honors a jazz musician of international stature for a lifetime body of great work.Brubeck, who turns 90 in December, received the weighty bronze statuette from festival president and co-founder Alain Simard. "It's heavy.... So was Miles," Brubeck quipped before delving into a few anecdotes about Davis, whom he ...

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