Dave Brubeck (1920- )
American jazz pianist and composer, he has written a number of jazz standards. His style ranges from refined to bombastic, reflecting classical training and improvisational skills, employing unusual time signatures, and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, and tonalities
"It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me."
"I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82."
Best known works: The Duke, In Your Own Sweet Way, the soundtrack for This is America, Charlie Brown; orchestral and choral works, and opera.