About this Event
Bar 7:30 pm / music 8:30 pm
The Darius Brubeck Quartet plays Brubeck Music and South African jazz!
Born in San Francisco, jazz pianist and composer Darius Brubeck grew up in the artistic milieu of his famous father Dave and has enjoyed a lifetime of varied international experience as band leader, composer, teacher and broadcaster.
The Brubeck family moved to Connecticut where Darius attended high school and graduated cum laude from Wesleyan University where he studied ethnomusicology and history of religion. Much later he was awarded an M. Phil. by Nottingham University where he was a Visiting Fellow in Music.
After university Darius led his own groups, played with Don McLean, Larry Coryell and was ushered into the international jazz scene in the Seventies as a member of Two Generations of Brubeck and The New Brubeck Quartet (Dave, Darius, Chris and Dan Brubeck) under his father’s leadership. He moved to South Africa in 1983, where he initiated the first-degree course in Jazz Studies offered by an African university, eventually founding the Centre for Jazz and Popular Music, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal where, as Professor of Jazz Studies, he taught until 2005. He has also served as a Fulbright visiting professor in Romania and Turkey.
In South Africa, Darius Brubeck and Afro Cool Concept, which featured some of the country’s premier musicians, played throughout southern Africa, Europe, and the USA. Brubeck also led other groups – representing his university and South Africa – and gave workshops and concerts in Europe and the UK, Turkey, Peru, Thailand and the USA. Using the band name, Gathering Forces for ‘world-music’ oriented concerts, Brubeck collaborated with virtuoso bansuri player, Deepak Ram.
Moving to the United Kingdom in 2006, Darius now leads the London based Darius Brubeck Quartet, which has become a successful and popular group in the UK and beyond. Since 2010 he has also toured with Brubecks Play Brubeck, appearing annually at Ronnie Scott’s.
“Darius, the eldest (of Dave Brubeck’s sons) and most visually like his father, plays stylish piano and knows the score” - Jack Massarik, Evening Standard
Darius now leads the London based Darius Brubeck Quartet, which has been together for 15 years and tours internationally. Since 2010 he has also toured with Brubeck’s Play Brubeck, appearing annually at Ronnie Scott’s. Two of his pieces, ‘For Lydia’ and ‘Tugela Rail” were selected by the Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music for its jazz syllabus. The quartet’s “Live in Poland” was on Downbeat magazine’s best of 2020 list.
The Darius Brubeck Quartet Live in Poland was listed in as one of the best new releases of 2020.
“How often do you come away from a jazz concert wishing it could have been bottled and later poured out to relive the magic again?” – Stuart Nicolson, Jazzwise, 2020
“The combination of Brubeck & O’Higgins is certainly among the best piano/sax partnerships in the UK” - Jazzwise
Line up:
Darius Brubeck – piano
Dave O'Higgins – sax
Matt Ridley – bass
Wesley Giggens – drums
Media patronage: Londynek.net
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Polish Social and Cultural Association POSK, 238-246 King Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 20.00
