Please join us for an in-person presentation by Philip Clark, author of the acclaimed biography Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time. First published in 2020, the centennial of Brubeck's birth, a new expanded edition has just come out in the U.K. with a U.S. release to follow.

Mr. Clark will tell us the backstory about how his book came into being and fill us in on the expanded content in his new edition along with busting some myths about the jazz legend. He will also incorporate musical examples to illustrate how many of Dave's grooves and harmonies have seeped into rock, pop, reggae, hip-hop and more. We'll hear how Dave's influences have landed in places where jazz musicians and composers don't typically leave their marks.

Philip Clark is a music journalist and author who has written for many leading publications including The Wire, Gramophone, The Guardian, Jazzwise, Financial Times and London Review of Books. He is trained as a composer, but these days prefers to play improvised music. In November 2021 he was awarded the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award at the British Library, where he takes up a writer’s residency in 2022 to work his next book, Sound and the City.

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