Better still, if he wants to experiment, let him begin with trying some real jazz. If Brubeck wants to experiment with time, let him not insult his audience with such crashing-bore devices as mentioned. Not surprisingly, considering many jazz critics resistance to change, the album received a fair amount of poor reviews upon its release, including Ira Gitler's now famous review in Downbeat magazine (the premier jazz publication at the time) that gave the album 2 stars and proclaimed, It's obvious that I disagree with Race's observation that "something great has been attempted.and achieved" in Time Out. This belongs in even the most rudimentary jazz collection.
Countless other musicians built on its pioneering experiments, yet it's amazingly accessible for all its advanced thinking, a rare feat in any art form. It doesn't just sound sophisticated - it really is sophisticated music, which lends itself to cerebral appreciation, yet never stops swingin'. Of course, we all know that the same pressings can differ in quality, so it is not wholly out of the ordinary that there would be some anomalies, either on his copy or mine.Īs for the music itself, there is not much to add to what has been said before, so we will go with a couple of Steve Huey's insightful comments from his AllMusic review, where he says, Dave Brubeck's defining masterpiece, Time Out is one of the most rhythmically innovative albums in jazz history, the first to consciously explore time signatures outside of the standard 4/4 beat or 3/4 waltz time. London Jazz Collector claims his "Columbia-CBS" 6-eye copy of Time Out is "inferior sonically to the original editions," but I can only think he may be right that his pressing may be "an end-of-run stamper artefact." I don't have an original to compare with, but I have a hard time imagining that my copy could be called sonically inferior. Once on the turntable back home I was very happy with the loud and clear audio coming through the speakers, with a nice separation and clarity of the interplay between the quartet. I wasn't sure what to expect sound-wise, but the 6-eye pressing indicated that it should be of a pretty high audio quality.
#BRUBECK TAKE FIVE ALBUM FULL#
Without listening to it I made the purchase, I mean what really could I have to lose? I was already hauling back a bag of full of records on the airplane.Īs it turns out this was a 6-eye pressing from 1961, with the cropped cover and the "Featuring Take Five & Blue Rondo A La Turk" text in the top right corner. Well, as we all know, vintage vinyl prices have steadily risen over the past twenty years, and before I knew it, even a flimsy 1970's pressing was sometimes fetching $20 - and that wasn't always for a VG+ copy.įiguring this $1 copy must be at the very least a later pressing, I pulled the vinyl out of the sleeve with no expectations, but - alas! - to my very pleasant surprise it was a 6-eye pressing, albeit the one with the "CBS" just beneath "Columbia" at the top of the label.
I didn't have a copy of this classic album in my collection because for many years it was so readily available at such an affordable price (I remember when you could find copies in the bargain bins), that I always just figured I would grab it at some point. And this was no trashed copy, the cover was a strong VG+, while the vinyl fell somewhere between VG and VG+. That's not a typo, it was indeed marked at one whole dollar. At the final record shop stop on my recent vacation, I was flipping through the jazz "new arrivals" when I came across a copy of the world-famous Time Out for the asking price of $1.
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