The Darius Brubeck Quartet - Live in Poland (2019)

Ubuntu Music is delighted to announce the signing of The Darius Brubeck Quartet (DBQ), led by pianist Darius Brubeck. The album, Live in Poland, was recorded at the prestigious Blue Note in Poznan, Poland.Born in San Francisco, Darius grew up in the artistic milieu of his famous father Dave and has enjoyed a lifetime of varied international experience as bandleader, composer, teacher and broadcaster."I was invited to Poland three times in 2018, the 60th anniversary of the 1958 classic Dave Brubeck Quartet's tour of this country. With the end of World War I in 1918, it was also the 100th anniversary of Polish independence. Szczecin (where I played on stage for the first time when I was 10 years old) was the first stop on the 1958 tour and the first city visited during my initial trip. I appeared for one number, inevitably "Take Five", with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra as part of the celebrations", Darius explains."I was deeply moved to find that my father's tour was associated in the Solidarity Museum with the beginning of the movement that liberated Poland from Soviet domination. Szczecin Jazz invited me back with my London-based quartet to perform at an arts festival the following month. The third time was for a tour of the six cities where the Dave Brubeck Quartet had performed; the first American jazz group to play behind the 'Iron Curtain', starting in - you guessed it - Szczecin. Suffused with political meaning for the audience and my boyhood memories of witnessing the devastation left by war with my late brother Michael and my parents, this was no ordinary concert tour."Darius continues by explaining the formation of his quartet and the creation of this recording project. "The Darius Brubeck Quartet features Dave O'Higgins (sax), Matt Ridley (bass) and Wesley Gibbens (drums) and has been together for 12 years. The four of us, along with Cathy, my wife and manager, make important decisions together. The plan was to record every night of the tour and choose the best takes but .