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Dave Brubeck
The Kennedy Center Honors Gala took place on Sunday, December 6 (Brubeck's 89th birthday), and was broadcast nationwide on CBS on December 29 at 9:00 pm EST. When the award was made, President Barack Obama recalled a 1971 concert Brubeck had given in Honolulu and said, ``You can't understand America without understanding jazz, and you can't understand jazz without understanding Dave Brubeck.''