Though the teenage members of the Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet have played together for less than a month, they have already achieved what many accomplished jazz musicians never will: At the Detroit International Jazz Festival over Labor Day weekend, they performed and shared the stage with legends such as Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea and Christian McBride.

They even spent time with Dave Brubeck when he visited their rehearsal. When Brubeck listened to the group's arrangement of his 1956 jazz standard "In Your Own Sweet Way," he loved it, said Steve Anderson, director of the Brubeck Institute.

"They're good. That's a given," Anderson said of the group, which will be a quartet Friday night when they open for the the Dave Brubeck Quartet at the Radisson Hotel. They will be down one member, however, since trumpet player Nick Frenay will join the New Generation Jazz Orchestra Friday in a performance with Wynton Marsalis at the Monterey Jazz Festival.

Brubeck attended the College of the Pacific (now the University of the Pacific) in Stockton before starting the Dave Brubeck Quartet. The group's most famous song is "Take Five," from the 1959 album Time Out, an experimental record with odd time signatures ("Take Five" is in 5/4).

The Brubeck Institute was formed by a committee at the University of the Pacific in 2000 to honor alumni Dave and Iola Brubeck, who were married in 1942. The institute furthers the legacy of Brubeck through archives, a festival, a fellowship program, a summer outreach program and a summer jazz youth camp, said Anderson, who was part of the founding committee.

The fellowship program selects five students per year to become the Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet. This year's group includes three musicians from New York: Frenay on trumpet, Noah Kellman on piano and Chad Lefkowitz-Brown on saxophone. Bassist Zach Brown is from Maryland, and drummer Corey Fonville is from Virginia. All five members are 18 or 19.

Though they usually play Brubeck tunes, Friday's quartet will be playing originals and non-Brubeck standards. "Brubeck will do [Brubeck]," Anderson said. In their 35 to 40-minute set, the quartet will play about four pieces.

Brubeck, who turns 89 in December, will also be playing in a quartet. He will likely play one or two songs from Time Out, Anderson said, but he will also play non-Brubeck standards, most likely including some Duke Ellington tunes.

"Even though it's the Brubeck] Institute, when we see him, it's most often not on the campus," Anderson said. "The band meets with him once or twice a year, but it's usually at gigs."

"They're very excited about it; it's a very big deal to be opening for Dave," Anderson added. "This is a group of young musicians that play far beyond their years. They're not an average group [and] they are very exciting."

The all-ages concert begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel, 500 Leisure Lane. Tickets cost $39 and $49 and can be purchased online by clicking here.