Before there was the world-famous hit-making Dave Brubeck Quartet, there was a far less popular Dave Brubeck Octet. Brubeck formed the group in 1946 at Mills College in Oakland, California, where he enrolled on the GI Bill to study under the French neoclassical composer Darius Milhaud. His bandmates were also Milhaud’s pupils: tenor saxophonist David Van Kriedt […]
