Time Out (album)

Occupation

Studios

  • June 25, July 1 and August 18, 1959
  • Columbia 's 30th Street Studio, New York City

Time Out is the title of a jazz album by Dave Brubeck, which was released in December 1959.

Genesis

The name of the LP is derived from the unusual for jazz odd time signatures (eg 5/4-Takt at Take Five or 9/8-Takt at Blue Rondo A La Turk ), thus mutes the predominant jazz 4 / 4 time ( "Time" ) from. Odd time signatures were the hallmark of the Dave Brubeck Quartet.

It was built between June 25 (tracks 4-6), July 1 (tracks 2 and 3) and 18 August 1959 ( Tracks 1 and 7) in the Columbia Studios at the 207 E/30th Street in New York. These studios included the CBS, to their label the album was released. It includes a mix of cool jazz and West Coast jazz. Under music producer Teo Macero Brubeck Quartet was in the cast Dave Brubeck ( piano ), Paul Desmond ( alto sax ), Eugene Wright ( bass) and Joe Morello ( drums).

Blue Rondo à la Turk begins in 9/8-Takt, the 9 beats are grouped as 2 2 2 3. The piece goes into a transition Chorus between 9/ 8 and 12 /8, remains for the improvisations in 12/8-Takt, and returns a corresponding transition Chorus back to the topic in 9/8-Takt back.

Strange Meadow Lark is played by Brubeck in the introduction rubato, but it sounds partly waltz accompaniment, in the improvisation parts it is in 4/4-time and ends again rubato.

Take Five is kept throughout in 5/4-Takt.

Three to Get Ready changes, according to three to get ready - four to go, every two bars between the 3/4-time and 4/4-time. Takes part in the piano 3/4-time the topic and in 4/4-time the saxophone.

Kathy 's Waltz, a misspelling of the first name of the daughter of Dave Brubeck, Cathy, begins in 2/2-Takt with a sort of stretched topic, the syncopation gives a waltz feel brings saxophone and piano improvisation, which then in the 3/4-time merges and then bring in a last chorus in the 6/8-measure to the closing theme in "real " 3/ 4 time. This song was also a standard.

Everybody's Jumpin ' is mainly kept in a 6/4-Takt, is initially and in the change in 4/4 beat while Pick Up Sticks remains in a stable 6/4-Takt.

Publication and success

Published on December 14, 1959 under the title Time Out (CBS 8192 ) was the first LP on 26 November 1961 in the Billboard pop album charts, where it remained at number two for a week. Although the album was planned as an experiment and it got negative reviews in the publication, it was one of the best-selling jazz albums. For the success of the album Desmond's catchy solos and Morello's drum work play an important role. Brubeck himself plays the piano in a not so flexible block chord style. The album was the first in jazz, that sold over one million copies. The design of the original cover of S. Neil Fujita used contemporary art.

Due to the success of the album still followed the 1962 album Time Further Out, which cited two hits, Unsquare Dance and It's a Raggy Waltz contained, but did not reach the same unity of its predecessor.

In 2005, the album was recorded as one of 50 shots in the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.

Album tracks

  • ( 1) Blue Rondo à la Turk - 6:44
  • (2 ) Strange Meadow Lark - 7:22
  • ( 3) Take Five - 5:24
  • ( 4) Three to Get Ready - 5:24
  • (5 ) Kathy 's Waltz - 4:48
  • (6 ) Everybody's Jumpin ' - 4:23
  • ( 7) Pick Up Sticks - 4:16

All pieces were composed by Dave Brubeck Take Five out of which comes from Paul Desmond.

Reception

The music magazine Jazzwise recorded the album in the list The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook the World; Keith Shadwick wrote:

" Brubeck rarely gets his due. A shame, Because his good qualities are pretty special. For starters, he knew exactly the way to get the best from Paul Desmond, and did for We Should all be down on our knees in thanks. Secondly, he's a distinctive composer with a knack for melody, as this fine album demons trates, even if the -defining tune, Take Five, Desmond is a composition. It's therefore important to stress Brubeck 's commitment to collective Invention within his group. . Quietly at unusual thing in jazz in 1959 Put that all together and the unusual time signatures did mark this album out tend to pale in Significance while the music remains convincing "

" Brubeck rarely comes into its own. Too bad, because his good qualities are very special. First, he knew exactly the way how to get the most out of Paul Desmond, and for that we should thank all on the knees. Second, it is a distinctive composer with a flair for melody, as this fine album shows, even if the title track, Take Five, is one of Desmond's compositions. It is also important to emphasize Brubeck's commitment to the collective Invention within his group. Still an unusual thing in jazz in 1959 All this together as well as the unusual time signatures that distinguish this album, are more prone to fade in importance, while the music remains compelling. "

Music

  • Brubeck, Time Out at the Jazz Piano series in Hansen House Publishing, transcribed very accurately the pieces, and piano solos from Brubeck.
Record label Columbia Records Genre West-Coast-Jazz Invention (musical composition)
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