Editing Dave Brubeck (section)

==Military service==
After graduating in 1942, Brubeck was drafted into the [[United States Army]], serving in Europe in the [[United States Army Central|Third Army]] under [[George S. Patton]]. He volunteered to play piano at a [[International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement|Red Cross]] show; the show was a resounding success, and Brubeck was spared from combat service. He created one of the U.S. armed forces' first [[racial integration|racially integrated]] bands, "The Wolfpack".<ref name="Cowboy to Jazzman"/> It was in the military, in 1944, that Brubeck met [[Paul Desmond]].<ref>Liner notes to the album ''25th Anniversary Reunion'', Dave Brubeck Quartet.</ref> 

After serving nearly four years in the army, he returned to California for graduate study at [[Mills College]] in Oakland. He was a student of composer [[Darius Milhaud]], who encouraged him to study [[fugue]] and [[orchestration]], but not classical piano. While on active duty, he had received two lessons from [[Arnold Schoenberg]] at [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]] in an attempt to connect with [[High modernism|high modernist]] theory and practice.<ref>Starr, Kevin. 2009. ''Golden dreams: California in an age of abundance, 1950–1963''. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</ref> However, the encounter did not end on good terms since Schoenberg believed that every note should be accounted for, an approach which Brubeck could not accept. 

But, according to his son Chris Brubeck, there is a twelve-tone row in ''The Light in the Wilderness'', Dave Brubeck's first oratorio. In it, Jesus's Twelve [[Apostles in the New Testament|Disciples]] are introduced, each singing their own individual notes; it is described as "quite dramatic, especially when Judas starts singing 'Repent' on a high and straining dissonant note".<ref name=Chris>{{cite web |url=http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/my-mentor-my-collaborator-my-father-dave-brubeck/ |title=My Mentor, My Collaborator, My Father: Dave Brubeck |first=Chris |last=Brubeck |publisher=Newmusicbox.org |access-date=July 13, 2013 |date=December 19, 2012}}</ref>

Jack Sheedy owned San Francisco-based Coronet Records, which had previously recorded area [[Dixieland]] bands. (This Coronet Records is distinct from the late 1950s New York-based budget label, and also from Australia-based [[Coronet Records]].) In 1949, Sheedy was convinced to make the first recording of Brubeck's octet and later his trio. But Sheedy was unable to pay his bills and in 1949 gave up his [[master recording|master]]s to his record stamping company, the Circle Record Company, owned by Max and Sol Weiss. The Weiss brothers soon changed the name of their business to [[Fantasy Records]].

The first Brubeck records sold well, and he made new records for Fantasy. Soon the company was shipping 40,000 to 50,000 copies of Brubeck records each quarter, making a good profit.<ref>Gioia, Ted. "Dave Brubeck and Modern Jazz in San Francisco" in ''West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California 1945–1960'', University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1998 (reprint of 1962 edition), pp. 63–64.</ref>