He died today. He was 91.

A jazz legend, that guy.

In case you don’t know Dave Brubeck, this was one of his…

That’s “Take Five,” and it’s been covered a bunch. If I would ever get off my butt and do some more of those “Cover Versions” posts, I’d do one on “Take Five.” And if I did, I’d include this – ’cause it ain’t bad, and it’s brand new…

And here’s somebody coverin’ it on a piano…

If that doesn’t impress you, how about a ukelele?

But there is no Take Five cover like the one George Benson did.

Take Five isn’t the only Brubeck tune y’all might have heard of even if you’re not a modern jazz type person. There’s this…

Blue Rondo a la Turk is the name of that. It goes kinda fast. It goes so fast that Al Jarreau made a fool out of himself tryin’ to sing something off it…

But there’s other stuff, too. For instance, there was The Duke…

And Three To Get Ready…

And Countdown…

And Unsquare Dance…

But he didn’t just do jazz. He got into inspirational stuff shortly after he hit it big with his trio…

Actually, in his later career he got into religious stuff. Joined the Catholic Church and ended up writing a bunch of sacred stuff. Here’s something he did from To Hope, which was a mass he wrote…

This guy was a great American hero and a musical genius. Rest In Peace, big fella.