jazz musicians too, like the legendary dave brubeck-- still performing at age 88. reporter bob faw takes a look at brubeck the man, some of his music, and the faith that makes it all happen. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: for nearly six decades, dave brubeck has been dazzling listeners worldwide with his unique inventive style, he has become a jazz immortal. ♪ what is less known-- and just as remarkable-- is that for much of that time, brubeck has also composed religious music like the commandments which he recorded for the milken archive of american jewish music. ♪ in his religious scores, brubeck achieves what he cannot achieve in jazz. >> when i write a piece, a sacred piece, i'm looking hard and trying to discover what i'm about, and what my parents were about, the world is about. >> reporter: you think religious music can change people? >> yeah, sure! >> reporter: brubeck says his service in world war two convinced him quote, "something should be done musically to strengthen man's knowledge of god." in his choral work "gates of justice," also recorded for the milken archive

would you ever say that the eat dave brubeck?d w should go in another dirtion. i think i have been bolenough to say, "you knowi just don't think this is quite sang what you want to say." >> reporter: sometimes, tugh, even a wily intervention isn't enough: lten to brubeck's hauing "our father" in "to hope?" >> ♪ deliver us from ev. >> rerter: all this, says ubeck, was composed in a dream. ♪ in your mercy, keep free. ♪ >> i didream it that night. and it turned out ptty good. >> reporter: you dream, y dream in rmony? do you dream an instrume or do you dream a melod what's the dream? >> uh, mely, orchestration. it's a pretty complete ing. >> repter: is it true that after u had the dream and after you wrote it down yothen decided to become a cathoic? >>eah, i figured somebody's trying to tell me somhing, and go with the flow. >> reporr: whatever the source, whatever the musical frawork, this living legend always tries, he say to convey the same messe: love your enees. you go by all kinds of churches, a they don't seem to know what chr