The name Dave Brubeck is often featured in a select list of legendary figures that includes Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and Miles Davis. Brubeck belongs in this pantheon of figureheads because he led a popular quartet in the ‘50s and ‘60s which not only had the biggest jazz hit of all time, “Take Five” (1961) but which also epito-mised an elegant, cerebral form of jazz which managed to smuggle all manner of profound and exciting music into the consciousness of an unsuspecting public.