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Time Out

Artist: Dave Brubeck Quartet
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List Price: ~~£6.99~~
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Tracks
Disc 1:

1. Blue Rondo A La Turk

2. Strange Meadowlark

3. Take Five

4. Three To Get Ready

5. Kathy's Waltz

6. Everybody's Jumpin'

7. Pick Up Sticks

Editorial Review
Amazon.co.uk Review
Boasting the first jazz instrumental to sell a million copies, the Paul Desmond-penned "Take Five", Time Out captures the celebrated jazz quartet at the height of both its popularity and its powers. Recorded in 1959, the album combines superb performances by pianist Brubeck, alto saxophonist Desmond, drummer Joe Morrello and bassist Gene Wright. Along with "Take Five", the album features another one of the group's signature compositions, "Blue Rondo a la Turk". Though influenced by the West Coast-cool school, Brubeck's greatest interest and contribution to jazz was the use of irregular meters in composition, which he did with great flair. Much of the band's appeal is due to Desmond, whose airy tone and fluid attack often carried the band's already strong performances to another level. Together, he and Brubeck proved one of the most potent pairings of the era. --Fred Goodman

Customer Reviews

Nostalgic music, 2010-07-26
Very nostalgic music for me, if not terribly exciting. I'm glad to have it in my collection.

THE standard by which many others are judged, 2010-02-18
Ladies and Gentleman, this is music.

Not only a masterclass in musicianship and song writing, this is a demonstration of audio recording that has to be heard to be believed. Recorded in 1959 apparently, well you could have fooled me, 'Time Out' sounds fresher and more vibrant than a majority of albums i have bought in the past decade. You can hear the breath on the reed of the Sax, the timbre of the cymbals, the crisp snap of stick on snare, the buzz of the bass string... you get the picture. You can also hear some hiss from the original tapes but this simple adds further to the atmosphere that this album strongly carries. Fortunate enough to have grown up in an era when vinyl was still a mainstream format, when listening to this CD, i can picture in my mind the evocative image of the original LP spinning round on the turntable.

Now available for the price of a CD single or a rare download, this remastered edition of the album is an absolute no brainer purchase, and is worth the price of entry alone for the albums most well known track Take Five. It is the most well known track for a reason, it is a masterpiece that still sounds fresh over 50 years after its original release. The linear notes describe musical time, experimental timing ideas and complex rhythm changes to break the trad jazz template of 4\4 time, and it would be far too easy to repeat these notes and appear to be knowledgeable but i won't. Whilst it is nice to know these things, this information is not strictly necessary to appreciate and understand this album. If you want modern reference points, well by listening to this album many a modern pop piano artist are revealed to simply be pale imitators of the art. On this record you can hear the influence and roots of James brown and his flavour of Funk, the House music keyboard sound, the list goes on.

If you are new to the genre of Jazz, then 'Time Out' alongside 'Mingus Ah Um', 'Kind of Blue' and 'Something Else' is a good place to start, and quickly becomes a clear benchmark by which others are judged (as are the others). Time Out is achingly cool because it wasn't trying to be, sublimely recorded and if ever an album deserved the title of a classic or indeed dare I say it a masterpiece, this has to be it.

Enjoy.

audio cd, 2010-04-05
since the 3 cd's came together, I can't understand why I had to pay the postal expenses for each one

the best, 2010-08-02
Up until this albums release - Jazz had generally been the preserve of smokey downstairs joints where you only attended if you were 'in the know', or 'part of the scene'.

Then Brubeck came along with a song called Take Five. Its such a recognizeable tune that now it seems like part of the fabric of jazz and mainstream music folklore. But at the time it sent the jazz 'cats' a bit cock-a-hoop. Firstly there was this weird time signature, secondly this was seriously good jazz played by a geeky looking white guy with thick rimmed glasses! Everybody soon got over it - and into this album.

I discovered a dusty copy in my mothers record collection when i was about 11 - and naturally immediately decided i wanted a smoking jacket and sunglasses!! Of all the cd's i've bought over the years - through rock / pop /metal / dance /hip-hop etc - this is the one that i have replaced the most times. Strange Meadow Lark's almost classical intro - leads into an impossibly perfect refrain.

Paul Desmonds sax is so familiar and warm on Kathys Waltz, and the opening track of Blue Rondo A La Turk really makes you sit up and listen. Even the Joan Miro painting on the cover matches the music perfectly. Time Out is one of life's rare things - a totally mainstream, accessible jazz album, that still has great relevance - and is - ultimately - still as cool as it was on its release over 50 years ago.

A matter of timing ..., 2010-05-03
American jazz pianist Dave Brubeck was responsible for the original 1959 `Time Out' album - a richly deserved platinum recording. What became one of the biggest ever selling modern jazz albums started as an experiment - and it received a number of negative reviews at the time. This CD contains all 7 famous-to-be numbers by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, where all were composed by Brubeck except the now classic `Take Five' by saxophonist Paul Desmond - who originally intended it to be a drum solo for Joe Morello. The fourth member making up the ground breaking Quartet was double bassist Eugene Wright - he is an African-American and at the time in 1959 with `segregation' this created difficulties for what was an `integrated' band. Brubeck employed unusual time signatures or number of beats to the bar, where probably the best known is `Take Five' in 5/4 time. On this CD very little is played in common time. `Blue Rondo à la Turk' is in 9/8 time, `Everybody's Jumpin' and `Pick Up Sticks in 6/4 time, `Three To Get Ready' in alternate 3/4 and 4/4 time, but both `Strange Meadow Lark' and `Kathy's Waltz' are largely in 4/4. However listeners should not be so distracted as to count the unusual time signatures - all they need do is relax to what is easy, wistful and haunting music - especially Brubeck's rhythmic piano and Desmond's lyrical alto-sax. If you're going to only own one Dave Brubeck CD - make it this one!

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