David Warren (Dave) Brubeck (1920 –2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer. His best-known group, the Dave Brubeck Quartet was with saxophonist Paul Desmond (1924-1977). Brubeck experimented with time signatures unusual to jazz. Are well-known recording, Take Five 1959, a composition of Paul Desmond, for example, makes use of the 5/4-size.
Albums:
The Dave Brubeck Octet (1947–1948)
Dave Brubeck Trio Featuring Cal Tjader (1949–1950)
Dave Brubeck/Paul Desmond (1951–1953)
Jazz at Oberlin (1953)
Jazz at College of the Pacific (1953)
All-Time Greatest Hits (1956–1965)
Time Out (1959)
The Real Ambassadors (1961, mit Louis Armstrong)
Tony Bennett/Dave Brubeck: The White House Sessions Live 1962 (Columbia/RPM/Legacy, ed. 2013)
Blues Roots (1970, mit Gerry Mulligan)
All the Things We Are (1973–1974, mit Anthony Braxton und Lee Konitz)
Brubeck and Desmond 1975: The Duets (1975)
Reflections (1985)
New Wine (1987)
One Alone (2000)