DU3 Album of the Day: "Time Out" The Dave Brubeck Quartet

[gratuitous]

When Stravinsky first performed his Rite of Spring in 1913, riots broke out in Paris. When the Dave Brubeck Quartet came out with "Time Out" in 1959, the jazz aficionado equivalent broke out. Mellower, to be sure, but no less intense for the animosity that assailed Brubeck and company for messing with the hallowed 4/4 and 3/4 tempos of Real Jazz.

More than 50 years have passed, and the seminal work from this album, "Take Five," has passed from offense to oddity to classic to parody and back again. But it's not the only good piece on an album full of good pieces. As was once said of Shakespeare, "Time Out" is good in spite of the people who like it.

There are new things to be found each time you listen to this collection, and while "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo a la Turk" get the most attention, there are plenty of nuggets to be mined by the attentive listener. Even the casual listener is rewarded with the complex rhythms and interwoven melodies. If you're of a percussionist bent, as I sometimes fancy myself, just listen to the drumming by Joe Morello and wonder how he came up with this stuff.

Blue Rondo à la Turk Brubeck
Strange Meadow Lark Brubeck
Take Five Desmond
Three to Get Ready Brubeck
Kathy's Waltz Brubeck
Everybody's Jumpin' Brubeck
Pick Up Sticks

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear gratuitous!

Where's the link?

*sob*

I can just hear the music...

LOVE it!

Thank you...

[gratuitous]

2. Link? And give away where I swiped all the stuff in my post from?

I think not.

But there was a post about "favorite instrumental album" a couple of days ago, and while I don't think this is quite what that thread was referring to, "Time Out" is instrumental. Huh, write lyrics to "Take Five"? Naaaaaaah.

[OriginalGeek]

3. all I have is a greatest hits thing

but it has Take Five (the reason why I got it lol)..

Will the very best of Dave Brubeck cover until I can rectify the lack of proper album situation?

[SCantiGOP]

4. My older brother had this album when it first came out

I guarantee you a year hasn't passed that I didn't listen to it at least once. My brother switched to country music when he went i the army, which I still don't like, but he gave me his collection of Ray Charles, Dylan and jazz when he shipped to Viet Nam. He still listens to Dylan.