Music CD - The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out

	Music CD: Time Out Artist: The Dave Brubeck Quartet List Price: $34.98 Our Price: $32.93 Your Save: $ 2.05 ( 6% ) Availability: Manufacturer: Classic Records
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Tracks: 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
Binding: LP Record EAN: 0601704819211 Format: Enhanced Label: Classic Records Manufacturer: Classic Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Classic Records Release Date: 2000-06-24 Studio: Classic Records
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Entertaining, solid musicianship, Comment: My piano instructor recommended this CD to me. I decided to pick it up, and presto a day later a review is jumping from my fingers. This album is considered a classic Jazz album by many and I can hear why. Odd time signatures, solid play, and quality compositions. That being said I can't rate this CD 5 stars. I just can't put this recording in the same catagory as Miles Davis "Kind Of Blue." Don't get me wrong!!! I'm glad I own it, and it will get many plays in my CD player and I-POD. However, I just can't put it on par with some of the other Jazz CD's I've come across in times past. I actually enjoyed the entire CD. However, my favorite compositions on here are: Blue Rondo, and Strange Meadow Lark. I just find that my ear happens to enjoy the rhythmic and melodic content in those two compositions over the others. This CD sounds before it's time (1959 originally recorded), but music has come a long way since. Bottom Line: I really enjoyed this CD, it's worth having, but there are other jazz artists I like more. Customer Rating: Summary: Not thrilled with SACD version Comment: The music itself is very good, but not great I would have liked more sax, horns. (This is coming from a Steely Dan fanatic) However, for a recording that is nearly 50 years old, the sound is fantastic, most people couldn't tell the age. My main comment is that the SACD surround mix is TOO subtle. I thought my player wasn't working. I have yet to compare the CD version to the SACD version. Maybe the SACD version is better, but I was hoping for a better surround mix such as Avalon. Customer Rating: Summary: Take Four Stars! Comment: There's no doubt this album is important, but that's not why you should listen to it. This album's exotic rhythms are one of a kind, and they are put to good use. Rather, the reason you should listen to this is the great music, that was made using cool rhythms. The Rhythm backs everything, and everything can follow suite. Therefore, cool melodies could only be strung together if they were in that rhythm with the particular time signature backing it up. It shows that yes, it's okay to know different music techniques. While the music theory freaks would easily eat that up, this is where Time Out retains it's deserving praise as a good album: You don't have to have to know a lick about anything related to the technical parts of music to enjoy this. It has it's melodicous center, and it will stay with you because the time signatures made music that still makes you want to stay with this album, even if you don't know how it's done. You don't know either, because technical factors are not the main reason you should listen to music. So Time Out will stay a well known album and find new audiences in all camps of music listeners and music dissectors, alike. There's not a single bad song, although I do find plenty of parts (in particular, toward the end) that make me loose interest. But that's not bad at all, as some of these songs on here more than likely do great, and Take Five is on here! There's no substitute for this song, with it's drum solo, cool rhythm, the cool sax solo, Paul Desmond is great. There's the opener, with it's pounding piano intro, totally chill parts after, and the piano pounding yet again. Three To Get Ready is another masterpiece. It's jazzy piano and trading lines of the instruments, with it's swinging groove. Strange Mellow Lark is cool and even a bit romantic. Pick Up Sticks has some akward piano playing with a cool beat. Kathy's Waltz isn't as good, but it's got a good intro, and Everybody's Jumpin' is my least favorite, though it stands on it's own greatly. Really, not a single poor song. Just not some of the greatest music I've ever heard, but still great stuff. Okay, so it didn't do much for me as it did for others (which is why it got the score), but still, get it. Jazz veterans and newbies can't go wrong with giving this a listen. And come on, Take Five owns! 7.5/10 Customer Rating: Summary: Some more praise Comment: It goes without saying, I think, that it is fair to call this album "over-rated", if only because so many jazz critics have said that it is one of the albums any collection must have. Having heard the Brubeck quartet play live on several occasions back in the old days, it is difficult to shake the bliss felt on those occasions from the somewhat bland and detached air felt on this recording. However, who will ever get tired of listening to Desmond's sublime "Take Five"? Or, for that matter, "Blue Rondo a la Turk". The music has been extensively analyzed by other reviewers and I choose to come at it simply from the viewpoint of the album's ability, time and again, to give pure listening pleasure. Customer Rating: Summary: Essential album - Brubeck's first (but not last) experiment with time. Comment: This is, as most other reviewers have already mentioned, a classic. It represents a brilliant fusion of jazz, blues and northern european classical music, while also exploring numerous difficult time signatures. Released in 1959, this album was certainly cutting edge in terms of its ambitious aspirations. It still sounds fresh. Dave Brubeck's classical training shines through, while Paul Desmond's sweet saxophone tone complements Dave's playing brilliantly. This album was a jumping off point, and the quartet's time experiments continued over the next handful of years, with "Time Further Out", "Time Changes", "Countdown: Time In Outer Space", and "Time In", all of which are also exceptional albums. A fantastic album that serves as a great starting point for those experiencing Brubeck, or jazz for that matter, for the first time. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: 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