Chips off the ol’ block, Chris and Dan Brubeck spend as much time on the road as their father, jazz piano legend Dave Brubeck.

Chris, a first-rate electric bassist as well as trombonist, and his brother Dan, who’s been laying down awesome drumbeats since he was 11, had the unique privilege of growing up listening to, studying with and eventually playing alongside some of the great jazz legends of our time — most notably their father.

During the past decade, Chris Brubeck has balanced busy careers as both a prolific symphonic composer and leader of the recently formed (with brother Dan) Brubeck Brothers Quartet.

Influenced by his father, whom he considers on a compositional par with Leonard Bernstein in his ability to meld jazz with classical idioms, Chris Brubeck has composed work that has consistently found favor with symphony orchestra audiences around the world.

Last week, the Brubeck Brothers brought their current stateside tour to wine country, performing for a small but enthusiastic audience at Lincoln Theater.

While the Brubeck name adds a certain cachet to the bill, the two musicians who round out the ensemble are no slouches.

Master of improvisation, guitarist Mike DeMicco has been performing with some of the best in the jazz world for nearly three decades.

Pianist/composer Chuck Lamb is an outstanding soloist and has provided inspiration for musical groups fronted by artists as diverse as Bela Fleck and Woody Herman.

The evening’s repertoire consisted mainly of new and familiar works taken from the quartet’s latest recording, “Classified.”

The familiar included their father’s beautiful standard he wrote for their mother, Iola, “In Your Own Sweet Way,” and a rousing, up-to-date arrangement of the senior Brubeck’s hallmark “Blue Rondo a la Turk,” where we heard guitarist DeMicco really make his instrument talk.

Along the way the ensemble teased us with cool jazz reminiscent of the 1960s, “Cool on the Coast,” and made the blood run hot with a driving high energy (albeit melodic) crowd-pleaser by Lamb called “Heyoke.”

A Brubeck concert wouldn’t be a Brubeck concert without a few works that play around with time signatures — “Dance of the Shadows” and “7th Sense,” both from the new CD; nor the tune that made Brubeck an internationally recognized name, “Take Five.”

Chris said his father will be honored on the occasion of his 89th birthday with a Kennedy Center Award on Dec. 6 and be televised in late December.

By the way, Dave Brubeck hasn’t slowed down a bit — he’s been on the road quite a bit this year, said Chris.

(The senior Brubeck was featured on both coasts this summer, from Monterey Jazz Festival to New York’s Lincoln Center, and has gigs next month at both Purdue University and the famed Greenwich Village jazz club, The Blue Note.)

Both Brubeck boys performed with their father at the Robert Mondavi Summer Festival in the past.

So, it was really nice to hear this next generation step up to the plate, performing in a first rate ensemble that, without a doubt, makes their dad proud.