Jazz Master Dave Brubeck Capping Time Out's 50th Anniversary Year With Three-Night November Run at New York's Blue Note & 2009 Kennedy Center Honors in Washington in December

Jazz Master Dave Brubeck Capping Time Out's 50th Anniversary Year With
Three-Night November Run at New York's Blue Note & 2009 Kennedy Center Honors
in Washington in December
Critically-Acclaimed 50th Anniversary 3-Disc (2CDs + 1DVD) Legacy Edition of
Landmark Jazz Album Available Everywhere Now

NEW YORK, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Declared a Living Legend by the Library of
Congress, jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck will be capping off a banner
year in his extraordinary career with a three-night run of six shows (8 p.m. &
10:30 p.m.) at New York's Blue Note on November 27-29 and being honored at the
2009 Kennedy Center Honors in Washington on December 6, the artist's 89th
birthday. The 32nd Annual Kennedy Center Honors Gala Program will be
broadcast on CBS television on December 29, 2009 at 9:00-11:00 p.m. (ET/PT).

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"Dave Brubeck's genius has dazzled us for six decades and has helped to define
an American art form," said Kennedy Center Chairman Stephen A. Schwarzman.
"This year, the Kennedy Center celebrates five extraordinary individuals whose
unique and abundant artistry has contributed significantly to the cultural
life of our nation and the world." (Other honorees this year are Mel Brooks,
Robert De Niro, Bruce Springsteen and opera singer Grace Bumbry.)

2009 marks the 50th anniversary of Brubeck's Time Out, one of the most loved
and best selling jazz albums of all time, and its centerpiece track, "Take
Five," an eternally cool sonic tonic for an endless summer night which became
the first million-selling jazz single in Billboard Hot 100 history.

Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings/Sony Music celebrated the album's 50th
anniversary with a three-disc edition of Time Out featuring the original album
(remastered for the first time since 1997) in its entirety, a CD of eight
previously unreleased live performances from the 1961, 1963 and 1964 Newport
Jazz Festival, and a DVD premiering a 30-minute documentary on the making of
Time Out, with an exclusive Brubeck interview, extensive performance footage
and more. "This package adds tremendously to the value of the original
album," wrote the All Music Guide.

A new Legacy Edition of another classic jazz title from the Dave Brubeck
Columbia Records catalog has been planned for release in 2010.

Still actively performing throughout each year, Dave Brubeck and his Quartet
helped launch the Time Out Legacy Edition with an incandescent mini-set at the
Soho Apple Store in New York on Tuesday, July 21, 2009.

History has a way of working with Dave Brubeck. By 1959, the year he recorded
Time Out, the album that brought the jazz avant-garde into mainstream
consciousness, he'd already been honored as the second jazz musician ever to
appear on the cover of Time magazine, five years after Louis Armstrong became
the first on February 21, 1949. Honored in 1996 with a Grammy Lifetime
Achievement Award, in 2008 Brubeck became the very first recipient of the U.S.
State Department's Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Diplomacy. In
presenting the award, Secretary Condoleezza Rice stated that ''as a pianist,
composer, cultural emissary and educator, Dave Brubeck's life's work
exemplifies the best of America's cultural diplomacy."

Throughout his long career Dave Brubeck has received national and
international honors, including the National Medal of the Arts from President
Clinton, the Smithsonian Medal, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He
holds numerous honorary doctorates from American, Canadian, English and German
universities, including an honorary degree in Sacred Theology from Fribourg
University, Switzerland. Recently, Brubeck received the Distinguished Arts
Award from the Ford Honors program of the University of Michigan and in 2006
received from Notre Dame their highest honor, the Laetare Medal. He is a Duke
Ellington Fellow at Yale University, and was presented with the Sanford Medal
by the Yale School of Music.

In the year 2000 the National Endowment for the Arts declared Dave Brubeck a
Jazz Master. He was inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame in
2003. In 2007 he received a Living Legacy Jazz Award from Kennedy Center and
the Arison Award from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts.
His international honors include Austria's highest award for the Arts, a
citation from the French government, and the Bocconi Medal from Italy. The
London Symphony Orchestra, acknowledging their long association, presented him
with their prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.

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