Dave Brubeck on Fighting Communism with Jazz

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“If I told you all the stories about what happened to people if they were caught listening to jazz.” – Dave Brubeck in 2008 …

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47 comments

@Stream_of_unconsiousness February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

I didnt think I could hate brubeck more, but now I do. Fighting communism, oh please. The fight in russia and Poland wasn't of communism, it was authoritarianism.

@MarxinRios February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

Wow, I didnt know Dave Brubeck was an apologist for imperialism.

@tommytwogloves16 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

Dave B. and Cal Tjader were friends of my Mom.. We used to get into the Black Hawk on Hyde St. back in the 50’s to dig these Catholic Jazz greats. We were in the “Chicken Coop!”😊

@colejohnsondrums February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

whats the song that plays during the intro? not take 5 but the one where the animated piano keys are shown.

@situsinversus5698 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

What‘s the song called at the beginning?

@blindboygrunt7711 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

Yes because America was a haven for equality and freedom at that time. Jesus christ

@selfpityingslogan February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

what a loada

@ethandew1768 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

As a communist I love brubeck's jazz.

@trippshow3541 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

I'd died for Dave.

@e.d.1642 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

Well this is disappointing. The US was and is the first agent of disorder and death around the world. Unfortunately jazz can do nothing against the US war machine. At least Brubeck could have been more subtile and said Stalinism instead of Communism.

@ryanmichelz94 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

He was a great pianist but he definitely fell victim to western propaganda

@langerlord February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

Commies mad in the comments…..

@fourthinternationalist_1917 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

Jazz in Support of Communism!
Long Live The Revolution!

@ThomasHope73 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

The ignorance in this thread would be astonishing, but sadly it’s to be expected. U.S. Americans you have to be the most self-congratulatory and least self-aware nation on Earth. “Wurr livin een tha laynd uv tha froiy!!”. Yeah, yeah 🤦‍♂️

@gregshock February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

Who is going to send jazz artists to America when the communists have completely taken control?

@hakeemahmadjamal7403 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

Gommunism bad

@gaynor505 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

A confirmation of what I've always intuitively felt about Brubeck: a white-bread, East Coast, elitist phony. A political Pawn and artistic lightweight.

@DGWise February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

What's with the high-school-sounding sax player as a soundtrack? 🤔🤔

@TheVojvoda February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

Why are there so many replies to other comments as their own comments?

@huyivant5190 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

I love Jazz and Freedom. RIP Dave.

@simonereckhaus February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

so sad to see how a master of jazz and great musician participates in such blatant and disguting anti-communist propaganda

@TeddyTheAcro February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

Guess I like Dave Brubeck less now. The music is still good though

@jrrrrrr3345 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

this sucks

@elynnzhao7422 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

jazz has always been the music of the people you visionless sheep

as a hardcore communist and professional jazz musician I do not approve

@GH-oi2jf February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

Brubeck was also fighting racism at home with jazz, although it wasn’t mentioned at the time. His group would play in places that didn’t like integrated groups, but he would refuse if they wouldn’t let them play with Wright.

@pabloid_j February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

Charles Mingus was a communist you dickheads

@davidvega7773 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

Globalización

@P.Rose_frmchrchst February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

Up Next: Charles Mingus on fighting Racism with Jazz

@andrewhall7930 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

Dave Brubeck, the only person I know of who died the day before his birthday Born Dec. 6th 1920, Died December 5th, 2012

@al-mcevoy February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

Great interviews on this channel, but the track behind this one is reprehensible. Cringe worthy at best

@reptarhouse February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

Should be fighting authoritarianism with jazz.

@plexpopper8763 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

The amount of people who are willing to downplay or deny the atrocities of Communism and Socialism is horrific.

@lolihitler4198 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

This comment section is in desperate need of a Pinochet

@theodorepullins3124 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

WOW AWESOME

@Rob_-dv6ei February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

People are talking about communism and America being great. Don't get me wrong he is very interesting but jazz is music, a beautiful form of music – not where conflict and over patriotism takes place – the point he's making is the way jazz has a wonderful effect on the most sad people and is taken away most cruelly by the nastiest people. Let's just stick to the music here and not go on about the 3 things we want to escape by listening to jazz: politics, realism and arguments.

@EllieMcEla February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

what a racist ass stupid ass dude

@Hector-yg6ps February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

beautiful art – Horrible man,. Classic.

@mitchprent8830 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

This is exactly why I hate communism and love jazz.

@Qyniuq February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

A white rich american man talking about how bad communism is

@oceanland7788 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

The fact is that communism is ultimately a system without incentive, thereby it is doomed to fail. People want to be rewarded in direct proportion to their work. Its as simple as that. Not saying that it doesn't have it's positively if its effectively integrated with capitalism (free healthcare, people not starving) but pure communism, like all absolute ideologies is bound to fail… and has.

@tatehamilton758 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

so many socialist/communist apologist on here, supporting communism using an iPhone, fucking idiots

@JacksLoom February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

I read the Biography and the Interviews of Dave Brubeck, he was always a person doing his best to make cultural exchange possible and he was always trying to find the peaceful solution for the problems he was confronted with. To say that he is fighting communism or whatever is deforming his memento by a great deal and in a realy ugly way.
you should read or listen to the interview until the end und not just stop there.

I reported the video for that. Because it would be realy sad to keep that "warriorimage" attached to this peaceful, good person.

@Trotskisty February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

Another nationalist, Imperialist, anti-working-class schmuck who wouldn't distinguish between stalinism and socialism. He should have played for Latin American capitalist dictatorships too. Those were 'our guys', after all.

Someone commented below that communists were among the early lovers of jazz — when a racist U.S. system almost completely shut out the black working-class in every way. So true.

But what does truth matter to an anti-communist schmuck, eh? What a waste.

@tudornimara4904 February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

Sounds like a good guy, but just another pawn in the west_vs_east culture struggle, between two super states and the networks of interests which they served.

Kind of like a canary bird singing its free form song in the twilight, where day and night struggle against each other.

@feltfriends February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

What a great American

@SlashUgly February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

Communism is for kids who don't know the world yet.

@ustwoalberts February 16, 2025 - 2:09 am

Communists were among the first jazz fans beyond the original jazz communities. They saw African-americans as equals to all other americans . U.S,capitalists were
 too busy making money from south African Apartheid and other cruelly racialist systems . The U.S.assaulted anyone in the (ex)european colonies struggling for freedom and autonomy. Meanwhile the dollar rich continue to assault anyone who won't bow down to their greedy arrogance,at home or abroad.
Jazz comes from the extraordinary cross-fertilisation of cultures and ethnicities
of the U.S. In jazz , all are welcome ,all are equal. THAT's the socialist ideal .

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