This song is also called “There'll Be No Tomorrow” and has been recorded with Carmen McRae and separately by Dave instrumentally. Beautiful melody and a personal favorite of mine.
The version on "Two Generations of Brubeck" is another standout performance of this tune. (Also has what I think is the best ever version of "Forty Days".)
Dave signed my double album "Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein" at Interlochen, Mi after a concert there back in the 60's. His sons performed also. They are one talented family.
Dave Brubeck is a treasure! Herd him in the Montreal Jazz Festival in July 2009. Simply luminous playing! And "the boys" were great, too. Played a full concert, as inspired and as charged emotionally, as anything! His son (the cellist) came out to play. Very interesting.
Mr. Brubeck is an example for many a musician half his age of creativity, dedication to his art and high performing standards.
To be politically correct, of course - PBS is celebrating the 300th anniversary of the invention of the piano not the Steinway. A minor point to us but a big deal to the pin-heads at PBS!
A CHopin tribute with Liszt music...very strange. It may be a Liszt tribute. The musci is Love's dream from Liszt!!! (Un tributo a Chopin con música de Liszt....muy extraño. Debería ser un Tributo a Liszt!!!
Further on wykatika's commens of classical/jazz fusion, check out Jacques Loussier's take on the second movement of Beethoven's 7th symphony, as well as Ramsey Lewis' treatment of Brahms. Great stuff!!
( on the other hand, let's not even talk about Eric Carmen's treatment of "the Rock")
LOL, namgoz, the first time I heard "All by Myself" I almost choked. I love Eric Carmen (especially his beautiful harmonies in "Let's Pretend), but lifting that piece from Rachmaninoff and then making it so mundane -- well, it hurt!
Somebody may have already mentioned this but I think I recognize this piece from my childhood. I believe it is called "Thank You" on the Two Generations of Brubeck" Album 1973. Saw them in concert in '77 in Philly. Unforgettable concert.
I think this is a wonderful representation of the fusion of both classical and jazz. Chopin was indeed one of the forefathers of modern jazz, catapulting the use of harmonies to new dimensions. Therefore, it is particularly pleasing to see the combination of Chopin and Brubek; Two individuals who believe in the beauty of sound, and bear the beauty of their being to the medium of the piano. How very fortunate are we for this composition.
This is definitely not Chopin, it is Dave Brubeck's original piece. The best version of this piece is from the album "Jazz Impressions of Eurasia" (1958). Don't know what Liszt has to do with it. The original title "Dziekuje" is Polish for "thank you" - which is the title in English as well. Besides, if Dave Brubeck intended this as a tribute to Chopin, who are you to gainsay him? It's his to dedicate to whoever he wants. Calling other people ignorant, diminishes you more than anyone...
Don't need to apologize to me, maybe to those you called "ignorant". Though the few first bars of Brubeck's "Dziekuje" sound a little like the beginning of Liszt's "Liebestraum", it is not enough to to make this "Liszt's music". Iif you have a source for yourt assertion that Brubeck used Liszt's music, please name it, I'd be curious to learn it. Short of that, it is just your word so I'd defer to Dave Brubeck: if he wants to say it's a tribute to Chopin - so be it.
@NotAgain90 if you read this video it would say at the bottom Dave Brubeck plays his piece "Thank You", a tribute to Frédéric Chopin, live on a PBS special celebrating the 300th anniversary of the invention of the piano. Broadcast in June of 2000" MAYBE you should read. lol plus it cleary says "Chopin Tribute", not just Chopin.
@MCalixte89 I read. Do you? I was replying to another know-it-all who kept insisting that this is a theme from Liszt's "Liebestraum". In my posts I said 2 things: (1) it is nota Liszt's theme. (2) it is a Brubeck's piece from the 50s album inspired by his tour of the Europe (incl. Eastern Europe, hence a title in Polish), and if Brubeck want to say that it is a tribute to Chopin, he is free to do so. I didn't say that Brubeck "quotes" or directly plays Chopin's music so you miss your point.
What do Dave Brubeck and Aretha Franklin have in common? They both adore Chopin. And both are great, talented, dear souls.
Chopin's Ballades are some of the most powerful music ever written, though they are far too intense to listen to with others. They must be listened to alone, in silence.
What an argument: to assume that someone who doesn't share your opinion is ignorant. I've recorded the cello part in all of the chamber works and have conducted the orchestra in concert for the second concerto and the Opus 22 Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante (this does NOT make me right). When you get past Chopin's melodies (brilliant without doubt) the harmonic complexity and rhythmic structure are mundane. You will disagree with this, but that does not make your opinion "inane".
I do disagree with this, and I did not use the word ignorant, this is not what the word "inane" means - perhaps you should look it up. While your at it, look up the word "Pompous".
When you suggest that I know nothing of Chopin beyond his second Nocturne, you intimate that I am ignorant of his oeuvre. As to pompous, I'll simply chalk that up as yet another gratuitous insult, the motivation for which escapes me. From my side, I wish you well and hope you continue to enjoy Chopin. If you like Brubeck's version, at least we are not without common ground. The music is more important than either of us.
OK, perhaps I was a little rude and I apologise for that. I am a big Chopin fan and have been for many years. That's not to say I love all his work though. In fact his Nocturne no. 2 was the fisrt Chopin piece I played on the piano and I've grown to loathe it over the years. I just think he wrote a lot of brilliant stuff too, particularly the Studies, Scherzos and Ballades not to mention the Sonatas which I would never describe as mundane or saccharine IMHO. Please forgive my previous e-rage!
Thanks for this and not to worry; it happens to the best of us. When I wrote my first post, had I given a bit more thought as to how provocative the word "saccharine" could be, the whole thing could have been avoided. Take care. I wish you well. Robert
This song is also called “There'll Be No Tomorrow” and has been recorded with Carmen McRae and separately by Dave instrumentally. Beautiful melody and a personal favorite of mine.
EdWaldrup 2 months ago
Maravilhsoso de se escutar Ponto final
MaisSimples 4 months ago
At least as much as Chopin deserves a "Thank you" tribute, Brubeck deserves another.
sajo2010 4 months ago 2
This is truly lovely, but has absolutely nothing to do with Chopin whose work I know intimately. Not even in the same ballpark.
Nepenthe43 5 months ago
The version on "Two Generations of Brubeck" is another standout performance of this tune. (Also has what I think is the best ever version of "Forty Days".)
pemungkah 5 months ago
Cheers Dave
ollieacappella 7 months ago
The beginning deeply deeply resembles the Brazilian like by Michel Petricianni.
NicholasFruneaux 8 months ago
Just super!...
grindner1 8 months ago
great!!! So deep, the point where the planets crash...Chopin and Brubeck...
mafesa77 1 year ago
Even with my eyes closed, could pull no Chopin out of this, but certainly the late Brubeck, no sweat...
fredericfranc 1 year ago
great, thank you, Mr. Brubeck
pascjen 1 year ago
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Just super!... I can't stop listening to it!... (inlove)
natiko1234567890 1 year ago
Just super!... I can't stop listening to it!... (inlove)
natiko1234567890 1 year ago
He turning 90 yrs old Dec. 6th! He still goes on tours to this day!
paintballme2 1 year ago 2
he came to my college last year and melted our faces it. Saint Rose
TrumpetThunder17 1 year ago
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MrLeefan...Dave Brubeck is alive and well in California. He will be celebrating his 90th birthday in December 2010.
dorieappleton 1 year ago
MrLeefan...Dave Brubeck is alive and well in California. He will be celebrating his 90th birthday in December 2010.
dorieappleton 1 year ago
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Does anyone know how is Mr. Brubeck now? Good health yet?
I take my hat off, he belongs to this major league, the one that you find only in heaven.
andibonnington 1 year ago
That white boy gotsum funky rhythm:) Go Dave, live long and prosper you're awesome.
sbringe 1 year ago
I weep when this marvelous man is no longer with us!
MrLeefan 1 year ago
Dave, I love everything you play. I love you!
doothless 1 year ago
MY GOD, DAVE BRUBECK!!!!!
linfernand 1 year ago
Dave signed my double album "Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein" at Interlochen, Mi after a concert there back in the 60's. His sons performed also. They are one talented family.
wborgstro 2 years ago
God Bless Dave Brubeck!
MrLeefan 2 years ago 7
Dave Brubeck is a treasure! Herd him in the Montreal Jazz Festival in July 2009. Simply luminous playing! And "the boys" were great, too. Played a full concert, as inspired and as charged emotionally, as anything! His son (the cellist) came out to play. Very interesting.
Mr. Brubeck is an example for many a musician half his age of creativity, dedication to his art and high performing standards.
It was a great evening!
NotAgain90 2 years ago 3
Wit h Dave Brubeck classical always meets jazz in the most funky, spiritual of manners. Thank you Dave.
sohooded 2 years ago 2
i love you Dave Brubeck, since 1958!!!!!
sohooded 2 years ago 8
I LOVE YOU DAVE BRUBECK!!!!!
NKSULLY 2 years ago 3
brubeck,80 anos e joao martins,70 anos oct,2-2009 Lincoln Center
Vamos lá?Eu vou...
Gildo
gildo34 2 years ago
Why do you suppose they re-labeled a beautiful Hamburg Steinway as a "PianoGrand"?? Brubeck is a legend, so it doesn't matter, but one wonders...
winestay 2 years ago
To be politically correct, of course - PBS is celebrating the 300th anniversary of the invention of the piano not the Steinway. A minor point to us but a big deal to the pin-heads at PBS!
radesrochers 2 years ago
perfect!!!
brodsky96 2 years ago 5
Thank God for Dave!
MrLeefan 2 years ago 23
amazing! I allmost cried so beautifull is this ...WOW!
Zweefsois 2 years ago
this was a very special night
CosmosRipper 2 years ago
Thanks - from Poland !
MilaMa57 2 years ago 3
I'm really glad someone took the time to invent the piano. I'm really REALLY glad people like Brubeck learned how to master it. Fantastic.
maidenjuice 2 years ago 7
Esto es el Sueño de Amor de Liszt!!!
cegaliano 2 years ago
A CHopin tribute with Liszt music...very strange. It may be a Liszt tribute. The musci is Love's dream from Liszt!!! (Un tributo a Chopin con música de Liszt....muy extraño. Debería ser un Tributo a Liszt!!!
cegaliano 2 years ago
He always sounds good. Music to the soul. Ann
annzum 2 years ago 2
I would rather call him Fryderyk Chopin.
Alex9322 3 years ago
THIS IS GREAT ARTIS!!!
predoje 3 years ago
Further on wykatika's commens of classical/jazz fusion, check out Jacques Loussier's take on the second movement of Beethoven's 7th symphony, as well as Ramsey Lewis' treatment of Brahms. Great stuff!!
( on the other hand, let's not even talk about Eric Carmen's treatment of "the Rock")
namgoz 3 years ago
LOL, namgoz, the first time I heard "All by Myself" I almost choked. I love Eric Carmen (especially his beautiful harmonies in "Let's Pretend), but lifting that piece from Rachmaninoff and then making it so mundane -- well, it hurt!
carnivalwrestler 2 years ago
Somebody may have already mentioned this but I think I recognize this piece from my childhood. I believe it is called "Thank You" on the Two Generations of Brubeck" Album 1973. Saw them in concert in '77 in Philly. Unforgettable concert.
cuddysay 3 years ago
First heard this on the Marion Mcpartland "piano Jazz" radio show cd with dave. ..just awesome...
mandrichard 3 years ago
I think this is a wonderful representation of the fusion of both classical and jazz. Chopin was indeed one of the forefathers of modern jazz, catapulting the use of harmonies to new dimensions. Therefore, it is particularly pleasing to see the combination of Chopin and Brubek; Two individuals who believe in the beauty of sound, and bear the beauty of their being to the medium of the piano. How very fortunate are we for this composition.
wykatika 3 years ago 8
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This is not Chopin, this is Liszt music!!!. Ignorants
cegaliano 2 years ago
This is definitely not Chopin, it is Dave Brubeck's original piece. The best version of this piece is from the album "Jazz Impressions of Eurasia" (1958). Don't know what Liszt has to do with it. The original title "Dziekuje" is Polish for "thank you" - which is the title in English as well. Besides, if Dave Brubeck intended this as a tribute to Chopin, who are you to gainsay him? It's his to dedicate to whoever he wants. Calling other people ignorant, diminishes you more than anyone...
NotAgain90 2 years ago 35
Excuse me, and thank you for your information, but the main theme is "Love`s dream", from Liszt.
cegaliano 2 years ago
Don't need to apologize to me, maybe to those you called "ignorant". Though the few first bars of Brubeck's "Dziekuje" sound a little like the beginning of Liszt's "Liebestraum", it is not enough to to make this "Liszt's music". Iif you have a source for yourt assertion that Brubeck used Liszt's music, please name it, I'd be curious to learn it. Short of that, it is just your word so I'd defer to Dave Brubeck: if he wants to say it's a tribute to Chopin - so be it.
NotAgain90 2 years ago 8
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shut up and grow up please!
danmeeson 2 years ago
you should be talking about growing up...
yMew88 2 years ago
@NotAgain90 if you read this video it would say at the bottom Dave Brubeck plays his piece "Thank You", a tribute to Frédéric Chopin, live on a PBS special celebrating the 300th anniversary of the invention of the piano. Broadcast in June of 2000" MAYBE you should read. lol plus it cleary says "Chopin Tribute", not just Chopin.
MCalixte89 1 year ago
@MCalixte89 I read. Do you? I was replying to another know-it-all who kept insisting that this is a theme from Liszt's "Liebestraum". In my posts I said 2 things: (1) it is nota Liszt's theme. (2) it is a Brubeck's piece from the 50s album inspired by his tour of the Europe (incl. Eastern Europe, hence a title in Polish), and if Brubeck want to say that it is a tribute to Chopin, he is free to do so. I didn't say that Brubeck "quotes" or directly plays Chopin's music so you miss your point.
NotAgain90 1 year ago
i got to watch him play last night at eastman school of music...he is still an amazing pianist!
edonanarudone 3 years ago
He went to Rochester, NY? I live there, I should've been there lol
terryma1215 3 years ago
What do Dave Brubeck and Aretha Franklin have in common? They both adore Chopin. And both are great, talented, dear souls.
Chopin's Ballades are some of the most powerful music ever written, though they are far too intense to listen to with others. They must be listened to alone, in silence.
chevychase 3 years ago 4
Dude. In silence? Come on now, lets not take ourselves too seriously?
Lebowski53 3 years ago
shut up and enjoy the music! this is SUCH a great song! :)
fenix9885 3 years ago 2
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The musical sensibility of Brubeck is capable to transforming even the saccharine compositions of Chopin into music of a very high order.
robbiegalgal 3 years ago
You obviously have no appreciation of the true beauty of Chopin's music. Have you actually listened to anything other than Nocturne No. 2?
Why do you think great musicians such as Brubeck pay tribute to him. Stating that Chopin's music is "saccharine" is just inane.
rwcrx 3 years ago 5
What an argument: to assume that someone who doesn't share your opinion is ignorant. I've recorded the cello part in all of the chamber works and have conducted the orchestra in concert for the second concerto and the Opus 22 Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante (this does NOT make me right). When you get past Chopin's melodies (brilliant without doubt) the harmonic complexity and rhythmic structure are mundane. You will disagree with this, but that does not make your opinion "inane".
robbiegalgal 3 years ago
I do disagree with this, and I did not use the word ignorant, this is not what the word "inane" means - perhaps you should look it up. While your at it, look up the word "Pompous".
rwcrx 3 years ago
When you suggest that I know nothing of Chopin beyond his second Nocturne, you intimate that I am ignorant of his oeuvre. As to pompous, I'll simply chalk that up as yet another gratuitous insult, the motivation for which escapes me. From my side, I wish you well and hope you continue to enjoy Chopin. If you like Brubeck's version, at least we are not without common ground. The music is more important than either of us.
robbiegalgal 3 years ago
OK, perhaps I was a little rude and I apologise for that. I am a big Chopin fan and have been for many years. That's not to say I love all his work though. In fact his Nocturne no. 2 was the fisrt Chopin piece I played on the piano and I've grown to loathe it over the years. I just think he wrote a lot of brilliant stuff too, particularly the Studies, Scherzos and Ballades not to mention the Sonatas which I would never describe as mundane or saccharine IMHO. Please forgive my previous e-rage!
rwcrx 3 years ago
Thanks for this and not to worry; it happens to the best of us. When I wrote my first post, had I given a bit more thought as to how provocative the word "saccharine" could be, the whole thing could have been avoided. Take care. I wish you well. Robert
robbiegalgal 3 years ago
Never heard of Schenker?
ayso78 3 years ago
hm, i think chopin would be astonished if someone could bring his own (chopin´s) music more in order then he did himself...
siebhirn 3 years ago
Grow up folks. This is just great music performed by a great musician.
bryantjazz 3 years ago 6
No, Drukk8, i WAS in fact referring to his little hermaphrodite SISTER, the one who produced the silent version of Finnegans Wake.
sagalat 4 years ago
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Well, I think it's more suited for Michele LeGrange, who does this better. For Brubeck, I'll "Take 5."
sagalat 4 years ago
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Michele LeGrange??? Is dis dat thar new purdy lil' lass, farmhouse pianist y'all? I don't know about you I much prefer Michel Legrand!
drukk8 4 years ago