Benjamin Ivry looks at the ways the US jazz composer Dave Brubeck explored Catholicism through his music in his 60-year career.
The American jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck (1920-2012) musically refined the traditional notion of conversion to Catholicism. In her informative if sometimes overdetailed new book, Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness, musicologist Kelsey Klotz explains that before being received into the Church in 1980, Brubeck repeatedly claimed to journalists that although not observant or educated in any faith, he was raised as a Presbyterian by a Christian Scientist mother who attended a Methodist church.
