“Take 5” was one of the albums I grew up on – it was among my grandfather’s favorites, and my parents really liked it, and I fell in love with it young.
At one point during my second attempt at getting a college degree in the late 90s, I was hanging out in downtown Boston and saw that Dave Brubeck and his sons were doing a concert at Symphony Hall, doing jazz pieces with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, based on pieces by JS Bach, CPE Bach, JCF Bach, and those all – the program was called something like “Brubeck and Sons Cover Bach And Sons”.
Anyway, I had some time to kill and was wandering by and saw that they had just opened up a student rush ticket…
The point is that, for ten bucks, I sat in a balcony overlooking the stage in a position that would usually be considered a terrible seat which is why it was part of student rush, in which I was looking down on Dave Brubeck’s keyboard over his shoulder, probably thirty feet from his hands. One of the greatest musical experiences of my life.
