Featuring Lindsay Blair In Miami’s Own-DUO BRUBECK

Featuring Lindsay Blair in Miami’s Own, DUO BRUBECK

Miami’s Own, Duo Brubeck, began in about 1991, with Tom Lippincott on guitar and David Brubeck on bass-trombone. As the group became more successful, Tom was not always available. A second set of repertoire and line-up for the duo emerged with Mitch Farber on guitar and David Brubeck on bass-trombone.

A breakthrough came when a concert was scheduled downtown Miami, alternating both versions of the duo. By each guitarist listening to one other play the complicated arrangements without having to focus on playing them, both were able to more fully grasp the concept of the group beyond the virtuosity of the parts.

The success of the group reached an important crest when Duo Brubeck was invited to perform at the 2017 International Trombone Festival near Los Angeles, California. One catch; both Tom Lippincott and Mitch Farber were busy the week of the festival!

There were doubts that any guitarist could reach the level of Lippincott or Farber in an idiom that they helped to create-jazz guitar and bass trombone duos! Eve if another guitarist they could, the time frame was daunting! Duo Brubeck had grown and accumulated techniques and literature for years, if not decades: to plug someone in now for a feature length concert seemed unlikely if not impossible given such short notice.

Except for Lindsey Blair.

Lindsay accpeted the challenge, and was even willing and available to fly out to Los Angeles. Some arrangements needed to be written down for the first time and new pieces were adapted. In record time, DUO BRUBECK 3.0, featuring Lindsay Blair, became a thing of beauty and originality on its own.

“Strawberry Fields, Forever”