BASH Change Dir to Location of File

How do you get to the directory that a file is located in?

Happily, the file I was interested in was a command so the following worked:

cd $(which brew | xargs dirname)

When the needed file is not a command, using FIND works but is slower:

cd $(find . -name hbase-0.90.5.tar.gz 2> /dev/null | xargs dirname)