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Interview: Dave Brubeck (Part 1)

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Marc Myers
Feb 01, 2010
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You can actually hear Dave Brubeck's two-octave grin over the phone. Dave talks slowly, at a measured pace, as though playing a ballad. His Memories of You speaking pace gives him plenty of time to be pinpoint accurate and to pause for reflection. It's at those moments, when he happily thinks back in time, that the image of his winning smile and squinti…

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