Darius Brubeck is an American jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, broadcaster, educator, and former director of the Centre for Jazz and Popular Music at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is the son of legendary jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck. Catherine Brubeck, a South African, has worked in events organization, publishing, and artist management (specializing in jazz) in America, South Africa, and the UK. She was the Project Manager at the Centre for Jazz and Popular Music, initiating and organizing extra-curricular projects and events throughout Darius's term as director.
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Foreword by Christopher Ballantine Acknowledgements Abbreviations Prelude The Mission The Scene Improvising Education Durban to Detroit The Jazzanian Effect The Jazz Centre and Drinks at Five Some Remarkable People Off Campus and on the Road Continuum Coda Appendix 1: Out-Takes Appendix 2: Documents Discography Notes Bibliography Index
"Playing the Changes is entertaining and profound in equal measure. It tells the story of a remarkable passage in the history of music and the performing arts in higher education, especially at UKZN but in South Africa more widely. Darius and Cathy Brubeck were central to the miraculous chemistry that made it all happen."--David Attwell, author of J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing