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Time Out 1959
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Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet released Time Out in 1959. It was an album recorded in a New York studio, with a group of four musicians who had already been working together. What came out was an album that broke away from the ordinary. It wasn't like other jazz albums of the time. Instead of using rhythms that everyone knew, they used unusual things, like the waltz, the double waltz, and time signatures that weren't used much, like 5/4 or 9/8.

Year
1959
Songs
7
Duration
5 min 24 seg
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7 song|s

Song list

# Title Available ⏱
01

Take Five

Guitarra · Intermedio

5:24
01

Blue Rondo à la Turk

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02

Strange Meadow Lark

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04

Three to Get Ready

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05

Kathy’s Waltz

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06

Everybody’s Jumpin’

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07

Pick Up Sticks

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About the album

Time Out, according to DoReSol

The most famous song from the album, Take Five, stays in 5/4 throughout. Only during the drum solo does it break a little. Other tracks also play with different rhythms. For example, Blue Rondo à la Turk starts with a 9/8 time signature, but it divides it in an unusual way: 2+2+2+3, instead of 3+3+3. The saxophone and piano solos are in 4/4, which creates an interesting counterpoint.

The album cover wasn't by a famous artist. It was a painting by S. Neil Fujita, a guy who worked at Columbia Records. He was inspired by his travels through the Pacific and Southeast Asia. The image has geometric shapes and strong colors, as if it were a mix between the Bauhaus style and something Japanese. That painting became part of the album, as if it were a visual note that accompanied the music.