Dave Brubeck — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 64 songs across 44 albums by Dave Brubeck. They use 1,289 unique words out of 4,087 (lexical richness MATTR 0.68), with an average of 64 content words per song. Emotional tone: 39% of songs positive, 50% neutral, 11% negative.
Most used words by Dave Brubeck
- love (85)
- know (48)
- time (40)
- come (39)
- heart (35)
- see (34)
- dreams (32)
- day (29)
- keep (23)
- blues (23)
- cannot (23)
- tell (22)
- things (22)
- say (21)
- good (21)
- dream (21)
- away (21)
- man (20)
- days (20)
- old (20)
Signature phrases
- “fly cannot fly” (12)
- “cannot fly cannot” (12)
- “sexy sadie” (12)
- “claus comin town” (9)
- “santa claus comin” (9)
- “keep traveling lose” (8)
- “traveling lose keep” (8)
- “broken winged bird” (8)
- “shine harvest moon” (8)
- “lullaby rhythm” (8)
Colors in the lyrics
- black (7)
- green (4)
- blue (4)
- brown (2)
- gold (1)
- white (1)
- yellow (1)
Albums analyzed
- Brubeck Plays Brubeck (1956)
- Brubeck à la mode (1960)
- Time In (1966)
- The Light in the Wilderness (1968)
- The Gates of Justice (1970)
- Summit Sessions (1971)
- Truth Is Fallen (1972)
- Two Generations of Brubeck (1973)
- Brother, the Great Spirit Made Us All (1974)
- 1975: The Duets (1976)
- All the Things We Are (1976)
- La fiesta de la posada (1979)
- I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 40 (1981)
- The Quartet (1989)
- Quiet as the Moon (1991)
- Once When I Was Very Young (1991)
- Plays and Plays and Plays (1992)
- Trio Brubeck (1993)
- Re-Union (1994)
- Just You, Just Me (1994)
- Young Lions & Old Tigers (1995)
- To Hope! A Celebration (1996)
- A Dave Brubeck Christmas (1996)
- Blue Rondo (1997)
- In Their Own Sweet Way (1997)
- Into the Light: Symphonic Expressions of the Spirit (1997)
- Brubeck: Chromatic Fantasy / Stravinsky: Concertino / Weill: String Quartet no. 1, op. 8 (1997)
- Dave Brubeck Plays Standards (1998)
- I'm in a Dancing Mood (2000)
- One Alone: Solo Piano (2000)
- Brubeck In Chattanooga (2002)
- Classical Brubeck (2003)
- Chromatic Fantasy Sonata / Rising Sun / The Salmon Strikes (2004)
- Private Brubeck Remembers (2004)
- Songs (2005)
- Nocturnes (2006)
- Out of Nowhere (2007)
- Indian Summer (2007)
- Take Five (2009)
- Jazz Manifesto: Time Out / Gone with the Wind (2010)
- New World Quartets (2014)
- Les Boys (2018)
- Lullabies (2020)
- Classics from the Master Tape C (2022)