Dave Brubeck Smithsonian Interview Block 610 (Q7521)

Let me talk about once again your relationship with Columbia. After Take Five, you have a huge hit single, unusual. It's unusual for any jazz musician to have a hit single, but for an instrumental and in 5/4, these are unique events. After that, was there pressure on you from Columbia to become more of a hit-maker and do more commercial music? Or did they give you freedom to define what you wa ...