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Byline: Gene Seymour
Jun. 23--If ever there were a perennial "go-to guy" for the JVC Jazz Festival to call upon to fill a room, it is Dave Brubeck. No matter how the rest of the year is going for jazz's fortunes, people will still show up in droves to absorb heat and light from Brubeck's relentlessly warm and sunny outlook.
He'll be 86 in December and, paraphrasing Casey Stengel, most of the legends his age are dead now. But though he sometimes seemed as frail as he looked Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall, Brubeck not only reasserted his mastery of rhythmic dynamics, but played with a diversity of tone and mood. Chords made their characteristic hard ...