Time Out manages a rare trick: it is both one of jazz’s great experiments and one of its most approachable records.
Dave Brubeck built the album around unusual metres, but nothing about it feels like an exercise. “Blue Rondo à la Turk” moves through 9/8 with astonishing ease, while Paul Desmond’s “Take Five” turned 5/4 into one of the most recognisable grooves in jazz.
Add Eugene Wright and Joe Morello and you have a quartet with remarkable internal balance.
It is an obvious classic, but obvious classics become classics for a reason.
Brubeck’s block chords and rhythmic ideas are balanced beautifully by Desmond’s dry, floating alto sound.
Joe Morello is equally central to the record. His control of pulse and subdivision makes the unusual metres feel natural rather than mathematical, while Eugene Wright anchors everything underneath.
The famous tracks deserve their reputation, but “Strange Meadow Lark”, “Three to Get Ready” and “Kathy’s Waltz” make this a much deeper album than a two-song greatest-hits record.
New and sealed 180g vinyl edition from Vinyl Lovers.
Includes the bonus track “Audrey”.
Catalogue: 6785403
Barcode: 8436544170039
Carefully packed and securely dispatched.
Recorded during three sessions at Columbia’s 30th Street Studio in 1959, Time Out was conceived around metres that were unusual in American jazz at the time.
It subsequently became a huge commercial success without compromising that original idea.
This Vinyl Lovers edition contains the complete seven-track album plus “Audrey” as an additional track.
Time Out manages a rare trick: it is both one of jazz’s great experiments and one of its most approachable records.
Dave Brubeck built the album around unusual metres, but nothing about it feels like an exercise. “Blue Rondo à la Turk” moves through 9/8 with astonishing ease, while Paul Desmond’s “Take Five” turned 5/4 into one of the most recognisable grooves in jazz.
Add Eugene Wright and Joe Morello and you have a quartet with remarkable internal balance.
It is an obvious classic, but obvious classics become classics for a reason.
Brubeck’s block chords and rhythmic ideas are balanced beautifully by Desmond’s dry, floating alto sound.
Joe Morello is equally central to the record. His control of pulse and subdivision makes the unusual metres feel natural rather than mathematical, while Eugene Wright anchors everything underneath.
The famous tracks deserve their reputation, but “Strange Meadow Lark”, “Three to Get Ready” and “Kathy’s Waltz” make this a much deeper album than a two-song greatest-hits record.
New and sealed 180g vinyl edition from Vinyl Lovers.
Includes the bonus track “Audrey”.
Catalogue: 6785403
Barcode: 8436544170039
Carefully packed and securely dispatched.
Recorded during three sessions at Columbia’s 30th Street Studio in 1959, Time Out was conceived around metres that were unusual in American jazz at the time.
It subsequently became a huge commercial success without compromising that original idea.
This Vinyl Lovers edition contains the complete seven-track album plus “Audrey” as an additional track.
