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London,
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Description: The pianist and his band perform modern jazz.
To have a superstar father can open early doors for a musician but later become a career handicap, especially when both play the same instrument. It was therefore understandable to find pianist-composer Darius Brubeck not mentioning Papa Dave (still active at 88) despite the similarities in their music.
Arriving onstage after an hour of vaguely Mediterranean fingerstyle solo guitar by the skilful Claude Bourbon, Darius revealed an unexpectedly strong South African connection. Possibly to minimise family influences, he had studied pianist Abdullah Ibrahim and spent several years in Durban.
Backed by drummer Wesley Gibbens and saxman-flautist Paul Greenwood, he played three tuneful township-style originals but blood is thicker than water. All these songs came across in his father’s percussive chordal style.
“Such a pleasure to play this room’s Steinway,” remarked the man named after composer Darius Milhaud.His choice of jazz standard, Better Git It In Your Soul, featured waltz-time handclapping.
His latest piece, A Sea of Troubles, had chord changes reminiscent of Dave’s In Your Own Sweet Way. And his version of That’s All transposed boldly into 7/8 time. All very Brubeckish.
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