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Dave Brubeck

I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone bec

Dave Brubeck

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Dave Brubeck is reflecting on how many legendary jazz musicians from his era have passed away, leaving him as the last surviving member of that group. He finds it difficult to accept that talented artists like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan are no longer alive.

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