Dave Brubeck - Time Out
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Free Music Review: The best, most accesible jazz album ever.
Hit: 5 Stars
I work in the seafood business. We have a saying in the indrustry that states: " Shrimp is the seafood for people who don't like fish." Dave Brubeck's "Time Out" is the shrimp of jazz. From the booming intensity of "Blue Rondo A La Turk" to the melodic sweetness of "Strange Meadow Lark," one cannot even tell that the album is an exercise in unusual time signatures. But it is. Most jazz is in "common" or 4/4 time, which means four beats to a measure. "Time Out" explores alternative time signatures such as 5/4, "Take Five", 9/8, "Blue Rondo A La Turk", and 6/4, "Pick Up Sticks". I was exposed to this album by my father, who played it more than any other album he had; he had a collection of more than 1000 records,including Garner, Getz, Waller, Goodman, Kenton, Jamal, and of course, every Brubeck "album" (we don't call them those anymore, do we?) available at the time. For a first time jazz listener, I would recommend this recording highly. The piano, bass, saxophone, and drums work together in a way that only Brubeck has been able to orchestrate. Joe Morello's drum solo in "Take Five" is the best since Gene Krupa in Benny Goodman's "Sing, Sing, Sing". Morello tunes his drums to approximate the notes of the melody. Paul Desmond's sax is at its playful best. His work on "Strange Meadow Lark" is both wistful and sexy. "Take Five", his own composition, was the first jazz record ever to sell a million copies. Listen carefully to Gene Wright's bass lines. Like a compass, they guide us through the treacherous terrains of Brubeck's bombastic blasts and Desmond's delightful designs. All in all, the best, most accessible jazz album ever. 'Free Music Review: Take Five - Stars, that is...haha, very good
Hit: 5 Stars
I played Take Five to a mate of mine and he loved but then when I played the rest of the album he hated it and kept telling me to play Take Five again and again. What a wanker, well I suppose he does also listen to Linkin Park, Lost Prophets and Blink 182, lol.
Being 17 years young myself, I can certainly understand the popular appeal of Take Five, the deceptively simple piano chord structure and the infamous saxophone melody that it supports are enough to make anyone like this song, no matter if you're favourite musicians are Miles and the Mahavishnu Orchestra or you're a big smelly metaller who likes Pantera!!!! and Slayer!!!!!, and then, if you actually know anything about music, you will be automatically astounded by the complexity of the time signature (5/4 i think) and, more so, how Joe Morello can manage to do an already technically amazing drum solo and still manage to stay in time.
Blue Rodo A La Turk is my favourite song on the album, it features a (non-surprisingly) Turkish flavour and time signature (9/8) which explodes into an almost operatic crescendo before slowing down and reverting to 4/4 for more of Dave and Paul's lead improv.
I'm not gonna review each song individualy, although I should because each is so unique (so unique, that's a pleanasm, sorry) but I'll end by saying that you must buy this album, whoever you are, especially if you're my age - the more of you who do and let it grow and you and inspre to buy more good music the less young people with **** tastes in music will exist, those wankers who give us young people a bad name.
Also, the final track 'Pick Up Sticks' has, without question, THE coolest bassline imaginable, yes even cooler than that of Miles' [...] Brew (title track) or Coltrane's Ole, impossible as it may seem. Go on Dave you legend
Free Music Review: Groundbreaking, Inspiring, and good for a relaxing day.
Hit: 5 Stars
I am not a huge jazz fan. The only jazz I own to this point are this cd and "Kind Of Blue" by Miles Davis. I am listening to this cd as I write this review and am just mesmerized by it. My favorite groups in music are actually The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. I think the Beatles are the best rock group ever. However, what the Dave Brubeck Quartet does here no rock band can touch. The notes sound very simple and complex at the same time. I can not explain it as I am not a "musical expert". I can't imagine today that Paul McCartney or the Rolling Stones, much as I love their music, could ever compose a work like this. The recording always gives me a feeling of what 1950's New York might have been like. Hopping, jamming, the Village. Coffee houses and silver plated old time gelatin photos of the city scape fill my mind when I listen to this cd.
Time Out has to be one of the best recordings ever made. It is the best known piece here. It deserves every accolade it has ever gotten. I can't add anything further about it whithout repeating all the praise it has already gotten.
Blue Rondo A La Turk is probably the second best known piece here. It is currently being used in the Radio Shack commercials that are shown on tv.
The rest of the songs glide by whether you actively listen to them, or just sit back and sip coffee to them. The interplay of drums, bass, saxophone, and piano is amazing. I feel you can not listen to this music and not think that there is a God in the universe.
This cd, along with Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Kind of Blue, and Some Girls would be five of the best recordings of the 20th century. I would give these five to anyone who wanted to know why the 20th century was a great place to be.
Time Out simply stands the test of time.
Free Music Review: Take One Brubeck Jazz Quartet. Add One Jazz Aficionado. Shake Gently. Whallah! ***** Five Stars
Hit: 5 Stars
The Dave Brubeck Quartet, TIME OUT, album is archetypal Brubeck & Company West Coast Jazz at its best.
You are forewarned. Once you listen to The Dave Brubeck Quartet*s, TIME OUT, album, resistance will be futile. You will be assimilated into the Brubeck Jazz Collective.
My introduction to Brother Dave and Company was as a 17-year old All American Bluejacket in Cold War service on the precursory cusp of Castro*s New Cuba, and the impending Cuban Missile Crisis. By day, I searched from the sky for fleeing Cubans escaping socialism, and, at night, listened to Dave and Company on terra firma. These jazz beginnings of mine occurred via total immersion in the jazz sounds emanating from a Columbia 33 and a third LP, while reclining on my bunk in communal Navy Barracks 628 located at Boca Chica Field, Naval Air Station Key West, Florida. I quietly and reflectively listened to Dave*s Quartet, re-listened to them repeatedly, again, again, and again --- as I drank in the *You cannot listen to them only once* West Coast Jazz, signature Dave Brubeck Quartet sounds of those, now, jazz classics, TAKE FIVE and BLUE RONDO A LA TURK.
It did not take that many 33 and a third RPM rotations before TAKE FIVE and BLUE RONDO A LA TURK took me and hooked me, and I became musically one with Dave, Paul, Eugene, and Joe. Ever since, unbeknownst to the Dave and the rest of his Jazz Quartet, stealth, fifth member element, young Watakushi-wa, me, was permanently added to their musical quartet.
What followed has been a jazz music listening life of enjoying and loving to hear Dave play solo or joined in jazz concert by his various Bands of Jazz Brothers.
LIVE LONG, LISTEN WELL & PROSPER!
Free Music Review: Artistic innovation + Catchy grooves = Brilliant jazz.
Hit: 5 Stars
While I'm definitely a newbie to the jazz genre, I know greatness when I hear it, and The Dave Brubeck Quartet's Time Out definitely fits that description. Released in 1959, a pivotal year for jazz, alongside gems like Giant Steps, Kind Of Blue, and Mingus Ah Um, Time Out rids jazz of fixed 4/4 and 3/4 time and incorporates exotic rhythms used in a totally accessible and catchy way. Both students of musical theory and casual listeners can get into this West Coast jazz album with equal enjoyment. The opening track Blue Rondo A La Turk clearly shows this. Its in 9/8, in the style of Turkish folk music. Upbeat and catchy, this is a classic composition that's been covered and reintrepreted eight ways till Sunday. Ditto Take Five, a number done in 5/4 and featuring both a wonderfully slinky sax line and a Joe Morello drum solo. Other tracks do not fail to enchant either--Strange Meadowlark is an elegant slow composition driven by Dave's fine piano playing, Kalthy's Waltz is a complex yet compulsively listenable piece done in quick waltz time, while Everybody's Jumpin' and Pick Up Sticks are 6/8 compositions that close the album on a high note.
The band, while not being ultra-talented, definitely works great as a cohesive unit. Dave Brubeck's piano gives the music its backbone, drummer Joe Morello and bassist Eugene Wright supply the swingin' rhythms, and Paul Desmond does a fine job on alto sax.
All in all, I'd say Time Out is the ideal place for the jazz newbie, not Miles' Kind Of Blue (which is beyond doubt a great album but not the greatest choice for a novice, contrary to popular belief). It swings, it grooves, and it appeals to both the diehard jazz musician and the uninitiated. Highest recommendation.