It's Brubeck Week!

Dave Brubeck will be 90 on Saturday. And there's LOADS going on.

-Dave Brubeck's sons (Darius, Chris and Dan) are on tour with Dave O'Higgins, and that hits Birmingham tonight, as curtain-raised by Peter Bacon with an interview at the Jazz Breakfast Blog

-Tomorrow the action is on the radio. There's the first half of a two -part interview Jamie Cullum did with Dave Brubeck at the Newport Jazz Festival, being broadcast on Radio 2 at 7pm. I've heard the beginning, and Brubeck tells his story really engagingly. E.g. he was being pushed into vetinary studies, until his professor said to him : "Your mind is not here with these frogs and formaldehyde..."

-On Thursday at 11 30am on BBC Radio 4, Paul Gambaccini interviews Brubeck, recorded at Brubeck's home in Connecticut.

- There is a 90-minute Arena TV documentary by and with Clint Eastwood on BBC4 this Friday. More on this in our previous post

-There's a 2-CD retrospective of tracks chosen by Dave Brubeck on Columbia Legacy

And a sad note. The designer of Time Out (above), just a few months younger than Brubeck, died a few weeks ago. A Guardian obituary of Neil Fujita is HERE

Dave Brubeck/Jamie Cullum/Clint Eastwood

Some of us are going to be singing "In Your Own Sweet Way" for the next month. A new Arena documentary entitled "In His Own Sweet Way," in which Clint Eastwood will pay tribute to Dave Brubeck, will be screened on the BBC at the beginning of December.

Lots of Monterey, Steinbeck, ranching and all that, an area of California which both Eastwood and Brubeck have as their heritage.

No definite timings - yet. But they're telling me "Friday 3 December, BBC Four TBC"

Credits: Producer / Director, Bruce Ricker; Executive Producers Clint Eastwood (Malpaso) & Anthony Wall (Arena)

NB also Jamie Cullum's BBC R2 shows on 30th November and 7th December will also feature a 2-part special interview with Brubeck and his sons.