Dave Brubeck

• Contains new specially prepared liner notes by PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ’s writer BRIAN MORTON and by Paris’ prestigious JAZZ MAGAZINE

• INCLUDES BONUS ALBUM "COUNTDOWN - TIME IN OUTER SPACE"

“Time Out has become one of those special records that even people who don’t buy jazz records tend to own. You might put Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue (available in this same series) in thesame category, along with something by Billie Holiday and maybe Louis Armstrong. The point is that people don’t always want ambiguity and pain in their music. They sometimes want precisely that quality of clear-sightedness that Brubeck always conveyed. Putting on a Brubeck album, especially this one, is like boarding a plane and hearing the captain’s voice describing the day’s route. It will take you somewhere exotic, by routes and procedures you don’t understand; but you believe in it.” PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ

“Much like Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet has never lost its power of fascination. On these unforgettable tunes, Dave Brubeck and his alter ego Paul Desmond seem to be painting a canvas. Every note is like a touch of color, expertly distilled, subtly hypnotic, ideally thought. Time Out opened the doors of jazz perception to millions of people, and continues to do so.” JAZZ MAGAZINE

PERSONNEL:

• Paul Desmond, alto sax
• Dave Brubeck, piano
• Eugene Wright, bass
• Joe Morello, drums

New York, June-August, 1959.

• BONUS ALBUM (8-18): COUNTDOWN - TIME IN OUTER SPACE (Columbia CS-8575)
• Same personnel. New York, May-December 1961.

TRACKS:

• 
• 01 Blue Rondo à la Turk
• 02 Strange Meadow Lark
• 03 Take Five
• 04 Three to Get Ready
• 05 Kathy’s Waltz
• 06 Everybody’s Jumpin’
• 07 Pick Up Sticks

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• 08 Countdown (*)
• 09 Eleven Four (*)
• 10 Why Phillis Waltz (*)
• 11 Someday My Prince Will Come (*)
• 12 Castilian Blues (*)
• 13 Castilian Drums (*)
• 14 Fast Life (*)
• 15 Waltz Limp (*)
• 16 Three’s a Crowd (*)
• 17 Danse Duet
• 18 Back to Earth (*)

• TOTAL TIME: 77:52 min.