NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, March 27.
PORT ANGELES — “Friends of Brubeck” will be a celebration tonight of the late Dave Brubeck and his music at Maier Performance Hall at Peninsula College.
A quartet of artists from the Olympic and Kitsap peninsulas have been rehearsing such Brubeck pieces as “Take Five,” “Three to Get Ready,” “It’s a Raggy Waltz” and “Alice in Wonderland” for the 7 p.m. concert.
Pianist and arranger Linda Dowdell is the band leader. Craig Buhler is on the sax, Ted Enderle handles the bass and Terry Smith plays drums.
The concert in Maier Hall, on the main campus at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., was sold out as of Thursday.
Proceeds will benefit the Peninsula College Foundation’s scholarships and programs.
Brubeck, a native of Concord, Calif., pioneered “cool jazz.”
The Dave Brubeck Quartet’s album “Time Out,” released on the eve of the 1960s, was the first jazz record to sell more than 1 million copies.
Buhler, a lifelong student of Brubeck and his saxophonist, the late Paul Desmond, came up with the idea for a Brubeck tribute.
