One of the world’s premier jazz archives, The Brubeck Collection at Wilton Library, has announced upcoming events to celebrate the launch of its 22,000+ item interactive digital archive to the world for the 1st time – more here.
While there, visitors to Wilton, CT can explore in person jazz legend Dave Brubeck’s unreleased music, rare photos, posters and beyond – from the biggest–selling jazz single of all time “Take Five” to Brubecks’s family life, involvement in the Civil Rights Movement and beyond.
Wilton Library – Brubeck Room
137 Old Ridgefield Rd, Wilton, CT 06897
June 15 @ 7:00pm-8:30pm
An homage to The David Brubeck Octet, the library is hosting a historic jazz concert bringing Brubeck’s most famous arrangements back to life for the first time since the 1950s – led by saxophonist Jon De Lucia and his all-star jazz octet featuring grammy-winning musicians. The Brubeck Octet, formed in the 1940s, is where Brubeck and his fellow composition students at Mills College explored musical concepts like polytonality and odd meters for the first time.
June 18 @ 7:00pm-8:30pm
Professor Gil Harel (PhD, Brandeis University) will discuss three divergent artist directions post 1959, a watershed year for jazz – John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Dave Brubeck.
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